单词 | luxuriance |
释义 | luxuriance (once / 3923 pages) n A sense of richness, extreme comfort, and abundance is also called luxuriance. The soft sheets, large television, and chocolates on the pillow in your fancy hotel room all contribute to its luxuriance. If you're used to taking the bus to school and work, even on cold winter mornings, you'll enjoy a few days riding in the luxuriance of your friend's brand new car with its heated leather seats. And if you travel to a country where people have trouble finding enough food to eat, you'll appreciate the relative luxuriance of your comfortable life and fully stocked refrigerator. Luxuriance comes from the Latin luxuriare, "have to excess." WORD FAMILYluxuriance: luxuriances+/luxuriant: luxuriance, luxuriantly USAGE EXAMPLESThe range of styles is wide — and yet there’s a luxuriance to the execution that fills the air, a youthful, ready-for-more brightness. New York Times(Oct 30, 2015) Far better if their arguments turned not on the luxuriance of their lawns but on the legal, medical and scientific rationale for the proposal. Washington Post(Sep 26, 2015) Better yet were his floating jumps and the luxuriance of his body angles at phrase endings. New York Times(Oct 21, 2014) n the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses Syn|Hyper lushness, voluptuousness abundance, copiousness, teemingness the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply |
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