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sensuous

[ sen-shoo-uhs ]

adjective

  1. gratifying the senses:

    You can wear your denim jacket, but the sensuous look and feel of a velvet blazer will elevate your outfit.

  2. readily affected through the senses; sensual; physical:

    a sensuous temperament;

    a sensuous young man.

    Synonyms: sensitive, feeling, voluptuous, luxurious, luscious, palatable, pleasurable, pleasing, pleasant, gratifying

  3. of or relating to the senses or objects that can be perceived by the senses; sensory; material:

    His observations based on sensuous experience seem self-evident, but the subsequent speculations are far-fetched.

    Aristotelian scholarly tradition subjected the sensuous qualities of music to mathematical and metaphysical analysis.



sensuous

/ ˈsɛnsjʊəs /

adjective

  1. aesthetically pleasing to the senses
  2. appreciative of or moved by qualities perceived by the senses
  3. of, relating to, or derived from the senses


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Derived Forms

  • ˈsensuously, adverb
  • ˈsensuousness, noun

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Other Words From

  • sen·su·ous·ly adverb
  • sen·su·ous·ness sen·su·os·i·ty [sen-shoo-, os, -i-tee], noun
  • an·ti·sen·su·ous adjective
  • an·ti·sen·su·ous·ness noun
  • hy·per·sen·su·ous adjective
  • hy·per·sen·su·ous·ness noun
  • non·sen·su·ous adjective
  • non·sen·su·ous·ness noun
  • sub·sen·su·ous adjective
  • sub·sen·su·ous·ness noun
  • su·per·sen·su·ous adjective
  • su·per·sen·su·ous·ness noun
  • un·sen·su·ous adjective
  • un·sen·su·ous·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sensuous1

First recorded in 1630–40; from Latin sēnsus “sensation, feeling, any of the five senses, awareness”; sense, -ous

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sensuous1

C17: apparently coined by Milton to avoid the unwanted overtones of sensual ; not in common use until C19: from Latin sēnsus sense + -ous

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Synonym Study

See sensual.

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Example Sentences

Jessica van Brakle and Zac Willis employ expanding foam and custom auto paint to fabricate a sensuous blob of a sculpture from which leaf-life paper prints sprout.

The two objects and the stormy sky behind them all merge into a sensuous dance of shadow and light.

The track is smooth and sensuous, particularly seductive when his voice soars into falsetto.

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The dogs have been fried in soybean oil until their exterior skin begins to develop a sensuous crunch.

Pulling bite-size pieces off each slice is an easy task; and the sensuous feel of warm beef juices only adds to the joy of a meal.

But that fun, sensuous persona concealed a history of tragedy.

Cromwell actually did declare a War on Christmas, which he deemed to be sensuous paganism.

Virginia Woolf came next, with her dazzling, sensuous essays and literary criticism.

And the most vivid First Impressions always result from the action of the intellect upon the sensuous stimuli from ear and eye.

He was a very tall loosely built man, with a sensuous laughing mouth and an eye that was seldom sober.

The Church required no sensuous image of Him, whom having not seen she loved, to prevent that love from growing cold.

Her face was pale and her sensuous lips were the color of her skin, whence her surname.

Was it not the sensuous side of her nature that had been touched, while the rest had been posing in the foreground?

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