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voluptuousness

voluptuousness

1 7.9
A full, attractive body that looks sensual and appealing
  • noun
  • /vəˈlʌp.tʃu.əs.nəs/
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translation icon : voluptuosidad
  • She grew, with middle age, into a surprising voluptuousness: her field-hockey player's body somehow suddenly understood itself.

Examples

  • And I'm actually going to make your bottom look just a tad bigger because it will add to the voluptuousness of your look.

  • 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

sexiness
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10 4.2

A quality that makes someone seem attractive and causes people to want physical closeness

adds emphasis on physical fullness and sensual body shape beyond sex appeal
gorgeousness
vsvoluptuousness
1 3.9

A state of being very beautiful or attractive

focuses on sensual body related sexual appeal rather than broad beauty
curvaceousness
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1 7.9

The quality of having a rounded, curvy body often used to describe women

emphasizes sensual full bodied sexual appeal rather than only rounded shape
shapeliness
vsvoluptuousness
1 5.1

An attractive form with parts the right size on a body or object

stresses sensual fullness and sexual appeal rather than neutral proportions
sultriness
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1 8.4

A way someone looks or speaks that makes others feel attracted to them

is more about body fullness and general sensual attractiveness than intense arousal
buxomness
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9.6

A body shape with a full, round chest and soft curves often in women

focuses on general sensuality and full form beyond just chest size

Antonyms

16 1.4

A quality of being unpleasant to look at

4.6

Not having an attractive appearance

How Sensual

sensuality
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20 6.8
voluptuousness
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1 7.9
allure
35 5.6
curviness
1 4.4

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.