sybarite
A person devoted to luxury and pleasureA person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a hedonist.
Meaning
1 sensesA person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a hedonist.
Schlemmer
сибари́тsibarít
a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
Translations
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Origin
The noun is a learned borrowing from Latin Sybarīta + English -ite (suffix forming demonymThe noun is a learned borrowing from Latin Sybarīta + English -ite (suffix forming demonyms). Sybarīta is derived from Ancient Greek Σῠβᾰρῑ́της (Sŭbărī́tēs, “(noun) inhabitant of Sybaris; (adjective) decadent; self-indulgent”), from Σῠ́βᾰρῐς (Sŭ́bărĭs, “Sybaris”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, suffix forming demonyms)). Sybaris, a city of Magna Graecia (the coastal parts of Sicily and southern Italy once colonized by Greek settlers), was known for its wealth and the excesses and hedonism of its inhabitants.
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Forms
plural: sybaritesSynonyms
14 synonyms- a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses:voluptuary