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English Dictionary: lusciousness by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lusciousness
n
  1. extreme appetizingness [syn: delectability, deliciousness, lusciousness, toothsomeness]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Luscious \Lus"cious\, a. [Prob. for lustious, fr. lusty, or
      perh. a corruption of luxurious. Cf. {Lush}, {Lusty}.]
      1. Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome;
            excessively sweet or rich.
  
                     And raisins keep their luscious, native taste.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      2. Cloying; fulsome.
  
                     He had a tedious, luscious way of talking.
                                                                              --Jeffrey.
  
      3. Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene. [R.] --Steele. --
            {Lus"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Lus"cious*ness}, n.
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