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sensuality

[ sen-shoo-al-i-tee ]

noun

, plural sen·su·al·i·ties.
  1. sensual nature:

    the sensuality of Keats's poetry.

  2. unrestrained indulgence in sensual pleasures.
  3. lewdness; unchastity.


sensuality

/ ˈsɛnsjʊəlɪst; ˌsɛnsjʊˈælɪtɪ /

noun

  1. the quality or state of being sensual
  2. excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures


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Derived Forms

  • sensualist, noun

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Other Words From

  • anti·sensu·ali·ty noun plural antisensualities adjective
  • hyper·sensu·ali·ty noun
  • nonsen·su·ali·ty noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sensuality1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English sensualite, from Old French, from Late Latin sēnsuālitās; equivalent to sensual + -ity

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Example Sentences

The premise comes and goes, however, and even the rest of “Clouds” focuses more on sensuality than sci-fi.

His photographs major on legs, lips, sensuality of the female form?

No historian, biographer, or myth-maker such as Carl Sandberg has ever written about his sensuality.

We can feel her sensuality and willfulness in the first daguerreotype we have of Mary, taken in 1846, when she was twenty-seven.

This maternal sensuality, she adds, is in no way an attempt to sexualize her children or herself.

Baudelaire had, in the matter of perfumes, a strangely subtle sensuality which is rarely to be met with except amongst Orientals.

In the intervals of his serious labors Napoleon gave way to a life of sensuality, and the women were prodigal of their charms.

I no longer habitually cherish physical sloth and luxury, which excite to excessive sensuality.

In some of the faces that passed him he saw only a careless sensuality brightened by the flush of excitement.

He never lost the veneration of his countrymen,--and no veneration can last for a man steeped in sensuality.

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