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Lusciousness

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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lusciousness

n. Property of being luscious.

WordNet
lusciousness

n. extreme appetizingness [syn: delectability, deliciousness, toothsomeness]

Usage examples of "lusciousness".

Scamp had fabulous legs, and her bralessness left no doubts about the lusciousness and authenticity of her chest, but after an hour of conversation about something or other, before suggesting that they leave together, Junior maneuvered her into a reasonably private corner and discreetly put a hand up her skirt, just to confirm that his gender suspicions were correct.

But she did have strange feelings, and a sense of the radical dimorphism that separated the sexes in her species, a dimorphism that did not stop with, nor was it limited to, certain differentials of size and hardness, of smallness, of softness, and lusciousness.

Oh, that all the strawberries were rolled into one, that I could inclose all its lusciousness in one bite!