Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sybaritism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sybaritism
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

luxury, wantonness, voluptuousness, or hedonism

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The samurai and others who flocked from the provinces to the capital when all offices were thrown open to talent, took kindly to the sybaritism which had been one of the causes of ruin to those they were supplanting."
"What fiend ever suggested to my landlady the combination of crimson roses and purplish paper? How I hate my environments! Poverty and sybaritism go as ill together as roses and purple paper, but I have always been too much given up to the gratification of the eyes and of the senses."

Etymology

From sybarite + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: sybarite

Usage

Inflected Forms

sybaritisms (plural)

Questions

What does sybaritism mean?: luxury, wantonness, voluptuousness, or hedonism
Where does sybaritism come from?: From sybarite + -ism.

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