voluptuary

noun

a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit and enjoyment of luxury and sensual pleasure.

adjective

of, pertaining to, or characterized by preoccupation with luxury and sensual pleasure: voluptuary tastes.

Origin:
1595–1605; < Late Latin voluptuārius, Latin voluptārius pertaining to (sensual) pleasure, equivalent to volupt(ās) pleasure + -ārius -ary; for -u- see voluptuous

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voluptuary (vəˈlʌptjʊərɪ)

—n , pl -aries
1.	a person devoted or addicted to luxury and sensual pleasures

—*adj*
2.	of, relating to, characterized by, or furthering sensual gratification or luxury

[C17: from Late Latin voluptuārius delightful, from Latin voluptās pleasure]

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"A true voluptuary will never abandon his mind to the grossness of reality. It is by exalting the earthly, the material, the physique of our pleasures, by veiling these ideas, by forgetting them altogether, or, at least, never naming them hardly to one's self, that we alone can prevent them from disgusting."

-George Gordon Noel Byron

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