Excess and Luxury

Excess

Excess noun - The state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed.

Luxury and excess are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Luxury" instead a noun "Excess".

Nearby Words: excessive, excessively

Luxury

Luxury noun - Something adding to pleasure or comfort but not absolutely necessary.

Excess and luxury are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Excess" instead a noun "Luxury".

Nearby Words: luxurious, luxuriously

How words are described

physical physical excess physical luxury
sheer sheer excess sheer luxury
ostentatious ostentatious excess ostentatious luxury
real real excess real luxury
Other adjectives: big, extreme, opulent, hedonistic, foreign.

Both words in one sentence

  • Grapes of Luxury To demonstrate the excess and luxury of wealth, a character will be shown reclining and being fed some small tasty food, usually grapes.
  • Abnormal Ammo Each cannon has its own magazine of luxury cars to blast forth, thus perhaps demonstrating the ultimate in weaponized excess.
    Source: Abnormal Ammo
  • Literature / The Halfblood Chronicles Alara reflects on this early in Elvenbane, mentally snarking that, 'there's nothing like a life of luxury to make thoughts of revolution melt like snow in the sun.' Shapeshifter Baggage: Averted, the dragon shift their excess mass to another dimension they call the Out.
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