Voluptuous Does NOT mean Curvey

When pedestrians use the term Voluptuous, they mean a female body shape that is full-figured, larger, shapely, curvy.

It is used as a euphemistic compliment for overweight women, focussing on the aesthetic quality of their figure that is a positive statement aimed at attraction, politeness or sympathy or morale.

This is NOT what the term Voluptuous means.

Voluptuous means pleasing to the senses. Something that excites our senses to a state of aesthetic enjoyment.

Ice-cream is voluptuous. A thin model can be voluptuous. A poem can be voluptuous.

A song, a shirt, a car, a dog.

So how did this misuse originate?

What the uneducated often do is to confuse words that look the same to be the same.

The term Largesse is used for Large. But it means Generosity, especially with money, not Size.

The term Enormity is used for Enormous. But it means an extreme scale of something morally wrong, like the enormity of the Holocaust. Enormity does NOT mean Huge.

The term Expediently is used for Quickly. But it means appropriate, practical, convenient. But expedient sounds like speed. It does not have anything to do with speed.

Stupendous does not mean Stupid. It means Impressive.



People are confusing Voluptuous with Volumous.