Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person given to the indulgence of the appetites or senses; one who places his chief happiness in carnal pleasures.
- noun One who holds the sensual theory in philosophy; a sensationalist. Also
sensuist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who is sensual; one given to the indulgence of the appetites or senses as the means of happiness.
- noun One who holds to the doctrine of sensualism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who believes in
enjoying sensuality and the experience ofpleasant sensations . - noun One who holds to the
doctrine ofsensualism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who enjoys sensuality
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Examples
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And the eldest brother, Dmitri, the sensualist is the one who in a sense becomes the moral touchstone of the whole book because he's the one who ends up taking responsibility for a crime he hasn't committed.
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Of all men in the world the sensualist is the greatest schismatic.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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To think of one's self as a "sensualist" sounds so cheesy in my mind, but yet, that's where perfume comes in.
Perfume? Really? Marina Geigert 2007
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-- To the "sensualist" Locke succeeded Berkeley, the unrestrained "idealist," like him an Englishman.
Initiation into Philosophy ��mile Faguet 1881
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A philosophy graduate and committed "sensualist" who quickly tired of pop stardom, Dengler always seemed
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A philosophy graduate and committed "sensualist" who quickly tired of pop stardom, Dengler always seemed
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A philosophy graduate and committed "sensualist" who quickly tired of pop stardom, Dengler always seemed
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Lacking in moral or spiritual interests; worldly. aaah, but the difference in MY lil label is that a "sensualist" denotes a certain spiritual connectedness that can only be found through physical/material experience ... to quote and old addage ... the path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom you see, how are we to know ourselves if we do not experience all the world around us? how are we to say that something is distasteful if it has never touched our tongues? hmmm?
...JOIN MY NEW DIARYRING NOW DAMMIT!!!... stardustcboy 2003
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"sensualist" meaning that someone is merely sensual ... sen·su·al (P) Pronunciation Key (snsh-l) adj.
...JOIN MY NEW DIARYRING NOW DAMMIT!!!... stardustcboy 2003
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Rudin seems just as keen to challenge the idea of Cleopatra as a sensualist.
Angelina Jolie's Cleopatra will show Egypt's queen as more than a sex kitten 2011
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