LUXURIANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does luxuriance mean? 

• LUXURIANCE (noun)
  The noun LUXURIANCE has 1 sense:

1. the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses

  Familiarity information: LUXURIANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUXURIANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

lushness; luxuriance; voluptuousness

Hypernyms ("luxuriance" is a kind of...):

abundance; copiousness; teemingness (the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply)

Derivation:

luxuriant (produced or growing in extreme abundance)

luxuriant (marked by complexity and richness of detail)

 Context examples 

Our road was persistently upwards, and as we ascended the woods became thinner and lost their tropical luxuriance.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He threw back his head, and there he stood in the golden glow with all his old Assyrian luxuriance of beard, all his native insolence of drooping eyelids and intolerant eyes.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)