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sensualist

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sen·su·al·ism  (snsh--lzm)
n.
Excessive devotion to sensual pleasure; sensuality.
sensu·al·ist n.
sensu·al·istic adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.sensualist - a person who enjoys sensuality
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
bisexual, bisexual person - a person who is sexually attracted to both sexes
cocksucker - a person who performs fellatio
bon vivant, epicure, epicurean, foodie, gastronome, gourmet - a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
erotic - an erotic person
hedonist, pleasure seeker, pagan - someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures
sybarite, voluptuary - a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
wanton - lewd or lascivious woman
Translations
sensualist [ˈsensjʊəlɪst] N → sensualista mf
sensualist
n → Genussmensch m, → sinnlicher Mensch, Lüstling m (pej); (Philos) → Sensualist(in) m(f)


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Will Henderson was a sensualist and had reached the age of forty-five.
Winesberg, Ohio by Anderson, Sherwood View in context
There is no such perfect conception of the selfish sensualist in literature, and the conception is all the more perfect because of the wit that lights up the vice of Falstaff, a cold light without tenderness, for he was not a good fellow, though a merry companion.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
You do not scruple to make a libertine of that noble man; you call him a sensualist as coolly as if you were speaking the truth, and yet it would not be possible to find a chaster man.
The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
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