sensuality

sen·su·al·i·ty (s

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1. The quality or state of being sensual or lascivious.

2. Excessive devotion to sensual pleasure.

sensuality [ˌsɛnsjʊˈælɪtɪ]

n pl -ties

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Physiology) the quality or state of being sensual

2. excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures

sensualist [ˈsɛnsjʊəlɪst] n

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Noun

sensuality - desire for sensual pleasures

sensualism, sensualness

concupiscence, physical attraction, sexual desire, eros - a desire for sexual intimacy

sensuality

noun eroticism, sexiness (informal), voluptuousness, prurience, licentiousness, carnality, lewdness, salaciousness, lasciviousness, animalism, libidinousness, lecherousness Her blonde hair gave her sensuality and youth.

Translations

sensuality [ˌsensjʊˈælɪtɪ] N → sensualidad f

sensuality

n → Sinnlichkeit f, → Wollüstigkeit f (pej); (of person also) → Sinnesfreudigkeit f

sensuality [ˌsɛnsjʊˈælɪtɪ] n → sensualità

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bastardise bisexual person bon vivant carnalise Carnalize cocksucker concupiscence Eros hedonism lechery physical attraction pleasure seeker sensualise sensualism sensualist Sensualistic Sensualness sex appeal sexual desire	Yet the spirit can for the time pervade and control every member and function of the body, and transmute what in form is the grossest sensuality into purity and devotion. Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context It was not exactly spirituality that was obvious, though the screen of the flesh seemed almost transparent, because there was in his face an outrageous sensuality; but, though it sounds nonsense, it seemed as though his sensuality were curiously spiritual. Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature's requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context	sensorial sensorialism sensorimotor sensorimotor area sensorimotor region sensorineural sensorineural hearing loss sensorium sensory sensory activity sensory aphasia sensory deprivation sensory epilepsy sensory faculty sensory fiber sensory hair sensory nerve sensory neuron sensory receptor sensory system sensual sensualise sensualism sensualist Sensualistic sensuality Sensualization sensualize sensually Sensualness sensuism sensum Sensuosity sensuous sensuously sensuousness Sensurround sent sente sentence sentence adverb sentence connector sentence fragment Sentence method sentence sense sentence stress sentence structure sentence substitute sentencer sentencing sentencing circle	SENSSA sensu carere Sensu lato sensual sensual sensual sensual sensualise sensualise sensualise sensualised sensualised sensualised sensualises sensualises sensualises sensualising sensualising sensualising sensualism sensualism sensualism sensualist sensualist sensualist sensualist sensualistic sensualists sensualists sensualists sensuality sensualization sensualize sensualize sensualize sensualized sensualized sensualized sensualizes sensualizes sensualizes sensualizing sensualizing sensualizing sensually sensually sensually sensualness sensualness sensualness Sensuism sensum sensuosity sensuous Sensuous Swingers North America sensuously sensuousness Sensurround sensus Sensus verborum est anima legis Sensus verborum ex causa dicendi accipiendus est

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bastardise
bisexual person
bon vivant
carnalise
Carnalize
cocksucker
concupiscence
Eros
hedonism
lechery
physical attraction
pleasure seeker
sensualise
sensualism
sensualist
Sensualistic
Sensualness
sex appeal
sexual desire

Yet the spirit can for the time pervade and control every member and function of the body, and transmute what in form is the grossest sensuality into purity and devotion.

Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context

It was not exactly spirituality that was obvious, though the screen of the flesh seemed almost transparent, because there was in his face an outrageous sensuality; but, though it sounds nonsense, it seemed as though his sensuality were curiously spiritual.

Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature's requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom.

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context

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