voluptuousness
- noun
- /vəˈlʌp.tʃu.əs.nəs/
- NSFW
- She grew, with middle age, into a surprising voluptuousness: her field-hockey player's body somehow suddenly understood itself.
Examples
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And I'm actually going to make your bottom look just a tad bigger because it will add to the voluptuousness of your look.
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In the photographs, she is trying to look spontaneous and friendly, but the photographs emphasize, through tricks of angle and lighting, her body and its voluptuousness.
Fiction book (1995) -
There is a girl in a Moravia story who is very young, but when she takes her clothes off, she has the voluptuousness of an older woman.
Academic text (2007) -
Never had he encountered a woman who combined intellect, social consciousness, and voluptuousness so stunningly.
Fiction book (2001) -
In those days, Merilyn had a shocking physical beauty: startlingly blue eyes and a sort of compact, uneasy voluptuousness.
Fiction book (1995) -
Each man and woman felt himself to be alone with me, just the two of us, in a hidden tower of voluptuousness, and such a wave of sensuality came over the world of the tent that it seemed to burn with desire and longing.
Fiction book (1991) -
She's what the Italians call a donna prosperosa, a woman whose prosperity is measured by the voluptuousness of her breast.
Fiction book (2002) -
The voluptuousness of the nursing, the slight suggestion of a belly, combined with the height, the angular shoulders, and the long arms, was arresting, undeniably attractive.
Fiction book (1998) -
She evokes purity, on the one hand, with her "virginal bosom," and voluptuousness, on the other, signified by her "ardent curves."
Academic text (1997) -
Her voluptuousness was admired by many, highlighting her full figure and alluring presence.
Synonyms
A quality that makes someone seem attractive and causes people to want physical closeness
A state of being very beautiful or attractive
The quality of having a rounded, curvy body often used to describe women
An attractive form with parts the right size on a body or object
A way someone looks or speaks that makes others feel attracted to them
A body shape with a full, round chest and soft curves often in women
Antonyms
How Sensual
Surface Forms
Morphology
voluptuousness = voluptuous (transparent) = voluptuous + ness
A straightforward nominalization: '-ness' forms the noun meaning 'the state or quality of being voluptuous'.
Etymology
Voluptuousness comes from the Latin word voluptas, which means 'pleasure'. So it describes a body that gives strong physical or sexual pleasure, and we use it for a full, sensuous, attractive shape.