Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Sensuous character or disposition.

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  • noun uncountable The property of being sensuous.
  • noun countable The product or result of being sensuous.

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  • noun a sensuous feeling

Etymologies

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From sensuous +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • As a whole they are singularly free from sexual sensuousness, which is so often a trait in songs of their type.

    Edward MacDowell Porte, John F 1922

  • In both instances we have the Giorgionesque conception stripped of a little of its poetic glamour, but retaining unabashed its splendid sensuousness, which is thus made the more markedly to stand out.

    The Earlier Work of Titian Phillips, Claude 1897

  • In this knowledge the soul begins to render His due to God; that is, glory and praise to His Name, loving Him above everything, and the neighbour as one's self, with eager desire for virtue; and the soul bestows hate and displeasure on itself, hating in itself vice, and its own sensuousness, which is the cause of every vice.

    Letters of Catherine Benincasa of Siena Catherine 1363

  • Sierra Madre Car Port 2, Up Against the Wall, Closed, Mark Twain Hotel, Broadway Alley, $3 Parking, Santa Ana off ramp...et al ... there is as Rothko was fond of saying a "sensuousness" present in the notans of those works.

    New Car william wray 2009

  • In the sensitive curve of her mouth there was a kind of sensuousness; in her low voice, in her pallor, in the slim grace of her

    The Fighting Chance 1899

  • In a word, Adrienne was the most complete, the most ideal personification of SENSUALITY -- not of vulgar, ignorant, non intelligent, mistaken sensuousness which is always deceit ful and corrupted by habit or by the necessity for gross and ill-regulated enjoyments, but that exquisite sensuality which is to the senses what intelligence is to the soul.

    The Wandering Jew — Volume 02 Eug��ne Sue 1830

  • In a word, Adrienne was the most complete, the most ideal personification of SENSUALITY -- not of vulgar, ignorant, non intelligent, mistaken sensuousness which is always deceit ful and corrupted by habit or by the necessity for gross and ill-regulated enjoyments, but that exquisite sensuality which is to the senses what intelligence is to the soul.

    The Wandering Jew — Complete Eug��ne Sue 1830

  • Largely because of such enterprises, American entertainment had become a “welter of sensuousness” and “voluptuous abandonment.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • The Swing Chair is an ergonomic and fine chair, characterized by the fresh sensuousness and the precious delicacy of old-fashioned textile lace-works, ideal both for residential or contract use.

    Inspired by the Fine Lightness of Textile : Wave Coffee Table 2010

  • Brown says that it comes from "... memories of childhood, my grandmother's curtains, infatuation with pop culture, screen sirens of the '40s and '50s, the sweet, sensuousness of a beautiful woman..."

    John Seed: 10 Memorable Paintings From 2011 John Seed 2011

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