Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To make sensual.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make sensual; debase by carnal gratifications.
  • To indulge the appetites.
  • Also spelled sensualise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb ascribe to an origin in sensation
  • verb debase through carnal gratification
  • verb represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture

Etymologies

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sensual +‎ -ize

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Examples

  • That the absence of feminine influence must tend to materialize, to sensualize, and to harden, must, we think, be admitted by all the thoughtful.

    Brave Men and Women Fuller, O E 1884

  • That the absence of feminine influence must tend to materialize, to sensualize, and to harden, must, we think, be admitted by all the thoughtful.

    Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs 1867

  • In fact, I bet that once staff members of other cons read this article, you might actually be granted press access while others, who are generally known to sensualize it like, "Look at the freaks!", and we're a bunch of sex-crazed lunatics.

    Hartford Advocate: News 2009

  • At the time of his death Michael Sorkin, New York architect and architecture critic for the Village Voice, described Buchsbaum as, "he remained true to modernism, but managed to sensualize it with soft and rich forms, textures and colors-his work was brilliant and his research, ongoing and open-minded."

    Media Newswire 2009

  • In fact, I bet that once staff members of other cons read this article, you might actually be granted press access while others, who are generally known to sensualize it like, "Look at the freaks!", and we're a bunch of sex-crazed lunatics.

    Hartford Advocate: News 2009

  • There are few exotic locales filmmakers fetishize and sensualize more than India, particularly (but not exclusively) Westerners smitten by the country's sweaty, colorful surroundings.

    www.philadelphiaweekly.com Philadelphia Weekly 2008

  • What! shall our senses alwafys possess the power, in some sort, to sensualize the soul, and our souls never be A Taste for Demtion, 195 be able to spiritualize the sennes?

    Sermons translated from the original French of the late Rev. James Saurin, pastor of the French church at the Hague 1812

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