Vv: Voluptuousness

adj.

1. Giving, characterized by, or suggesting ample, unrestrained pleasure to the senses: voluptuous sculptural forms; a voluptuous ripe fruit; a full, voluptuous figure.

2.

a. Devoted to or indulging in sensual pleasures.

b. Directed toward or anticipating sensual pleasure: voluptuous thoughts.

c. Arising from or contributing to the satisfaction of sensuous or sensual desires. See Synonyms at sensuous.

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[Middle English, from Old French voluptueux, from Latin voluptusus, full of pleasure, from volupts, pleasure; see wel-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

They did not think sufficiently into the depth; therefore their feeling did not reach to the bottom.

Some sensation of voluptuousness and some sensation of tedium: these have as yet been their best contemplation.

Ghost-breathing and ghost-whisking, seemeth to me all the jingle-jangling of their harps; what have they known hitherto of the fervour of tones!--

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context