sensuously

[ sen-shoo-uhs-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

in a way that gratifies or delights the senses:
The still life drips sensuously with color, life, and stylistic innovation.
We swooned over the sensuously edible little Nantucket bay scallops, seared but nearly raw, and topped with thin garlic coins.
in a way that affects or can be perceived by the senses:
An ideal exists outside peoples’ consciousness, unrelated to the external, sensuously perceptible world.

Accordingly, the man governed preponderately by feelings, or sensuously unstrung, is emancipated and set free by matter.

She threw herself on him, kissed him sensuously scores of times, whispered her desire and her affection.

She had not believed it could seem so beautiful, so magnificent, so sensuously seductive.

Masini's voice was more sensuously beautiful than Fancelli's, and he was more full of conceit.

It was the sensitive artist nature in him that responded instantly to anything sensuously attractive.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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