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luxuriance

/lʌgˈʒʊəriəns/
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Other forms: luxuriances

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."

Definitions of luxuriance
  1. noun
    the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses
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    type of:
    abundance, copiousness, teemingness
    the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply
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