n. pl. vo·lup·tu·ar·ies A person whose life is given over to luxury and sensual pleasures; a sensualist: "an adventurous voluptuary, angling in all streams for variety of pleasures" (Thomas De Quincey). [French voluptuaire, from Old French, from Late Latin voluptuārius, variant of Latin voluptārius, devoted to pleasure, from voluptās, pleasure; see wel-1 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] vo·luptu·ar′y adj. |
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