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.
Nearby Words: luxurious, luxuriously
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Related pairs
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
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To demonstrate the excess and luxury of wealth, a character will be shown reclining and being fed some small tasty food, usually grapes.
Source: Grapes of Luxury -
Each cannon has its own magazine of luxury cars to blast forth, thus perhaps demonstrating the ultimate in weaponized excess.
Source: Abnormal Ammo -
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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