VOLUPTUOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does voluptuousness mean? 

• VOLUPTUOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun VOLUPTUOUSNESS has 3 senses:

1. the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting)

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

3. the quality of having a well-rounded body

  Familiarity information: VOLUPTUOUSNESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOLUPTUOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

hot stuff; voluptuousness

Context example:

he thought she was really hot stuff

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

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Derivation:

voluptuous (having strong sexual appeal)

Sense 2

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 ("voluptuousness" is a kind of...):

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

Derivation:

voluptuous (displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quality of having a well-rounded body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

curvaceousness; shapeliness; voluptuousness

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

pulchritude (physical beauty (especially of a woman))

Derivation:

voluptuous ((of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves)

 Context examples 

I seek not gaiety nor mirth, not the bright voluptuousness of much sunshine and sparkling waters which please the young and gay.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal, till I could see in the moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)