Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or state of being sensual or lascivious.
- noun Excessive devotion to sensual pleasure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sensual or carnal nature or promptings; carnality; worldliness.
- noun Unrestrained gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being sensual; devotedness to the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures; luxuriousness; voluptuousness; lewdness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state of being
sensual ,sensuous orsexy . - noun countable A
preoccupation with sensualpleasure .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun desire for sensual pleasures
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the German songbook during the Weimar, including his collaborations with Brecht, Kurt Weill used elements of jazz as an expression of sensuality, but also as a satirical element.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Ute Lemper -- The Music of Kurt Weill Fern Siegel 2011
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In the German songbook during the Weimar, including his collaborations with Brecht, Kurt Weill used elements of jazz as an expression of sensuality, but also as a satirical element.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Ute Lemper -- The Music of Kurt Weill Fern Siegel 2011
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As I began to read I found, that like foreplay, the first two stories built in sensuality to the full on sexual bite of the third.
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But the inherent sensuality is there in full measure.
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But the innate sensuality is there in full measure.
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This tradition of tranquil sensuality is of Moslem origin, and is perhaps still strongest among Moslems, but also on Jewish and Christian faces there can be recognized this steady light, which makes it seem as if the Puritans who banish pleasure and libertines who savage her did worse than we had imagined.
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This tradition of tranquil sensuality is of Moslem origin, and is perhaps still strongest among Moslems, but also on Jewish and Christian faces there can be recognized this steady light, which makes it seem as if the Puritans who banish pleasure and libertines who savage her did worse than we had imagined.
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In the German songbook during the Weimar, including his collaborations with Brecht, Kurt Weill used elements of jazz as an expression of sensuality, but also as a satirical element.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Fern Siegel 2011
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The fact is simply this: the passions of men originate in sensuality; those of women, in sentiment: man loves corporeally, woman mentally: which is the nobler creature?
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination 1799
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The fact is simply this: the passions of men originate in sensuality; those of women, in sentiment: man loves corporeally, woman mentally: which is the nobler creature?
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination 1799
limberbellona commented on the word sensuality
"Sexuality is overrated; SENSUALITY is where it's at!"
- a sex advice column
December 10, 2007