Sybaritism
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 luxury, wantonness, voluptuousness, or hedonism countable, uncountable
"The samurai and others who flocked from the provinces to the capital when all offices were thrown open to talent, took kindly to the sybaritism which had been one of the causes of ruin to those they were supplanting."
Example
More examples"The samurai and others who flocked from the provinces to the capital when all offices were thrown open to talent, took kindly to the sybaritism which had been one of the causes of ruin to those they were supplanting."
Etymology
From sybarite + -ism.
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