Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Sensual character; sensuality.

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

  • noun Sensuality; fleshliness.

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  • noun The quality of being sensual; sensuality.

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

  • noun desire for sensual pleasures

Etymologies

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sensual +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Fire & Memory: On Architecture & Energy by Luiz Fernando-Galiano, translated by Gina Carino–kind of like a spanish Juhani Pallasma,; this book first opened me up to the sensualness of buildings. buildings radiate energy, and should be not only touched but caressed.

    Build Blog » BUILD Book Report 2009

  • "There's a big difference between sensualness and sleazy," says spokesman Seth Jacobson.

    Newsmakers 2008

  • Scarlet, composed of red and blue, is the color of pride, defiance, temper flashes, sharpness of tongue, and sensualness.

    Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994

  • Scarlet, composed of red and blue, is the color of pride, defiance, temper flashes, sharpness of tongue, and sensualness.

    Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994

  • Scarlet, composed of red and blue, is the color of pride, defiance, temper flashes, sharpness of tongue, and sensualness.

    Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994

  • Scarlet, composed of red and blue, is the color of pride, defiance, temper flashes, sharpness of tongue, and sensualness.

    Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994

  • Long black hair against the creaminess of her skin; her face always something of joy, sensualness, or serenity-

    Elephant Song Longyear, Barry 1982

  • Actually McKillip is in the Calvino mode only in the way she loves the sensualness of the surroundings she writes about.

    Just Another Pretty Farce 2010

  • It's not just the size my friend, it's also the sensualness, the presence and the charisma.

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2009

  • Like the idea that love is finally recognised and attacked by the strings of the universe which combines all life … sensualness is a part of this love, or was this all to make people of earth understand this?

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

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