sensuously

American  

[sen-shoo-uhs-lee] / ˈsɛn ʃu əs li /

adverb

1. 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.

2. 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.

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Other Word Forms

• antisensuously
  adverb
• hypersensuously
  adverb
• nonsensuously
  adverb
• subsensuously
  adverb
• supersensuously
  adverb
• unsensuously
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of sensuously

sensuous ( def. ) + -ly

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Example Sentences

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sensuously

And her works go about answering them studiously but sensuously — with earnestness, wit, whimsy, self-awareness and music that ranges freely among, for a start, Baroque madrigals, power ballads and barbed modernism.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023

Even a simple alphabet by the graffiti artist known as Worm is sensuously pictorial, since it’s rendered in bulbous, smeary and hot-colored letters.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022

The modern architect Gio Ponti created many of his iconic furniture pieces between the wars, but those from the 1950s are among his most sensuously radical.

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2021

At the other is Purifoy’s astounding painting “Watts Riot,” made from salvage gathered in the wake of the disastrous 1965 event and arguably the most sensuously beautiful work of art ever wrenched from conflagration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2019

The pigs lay, bloated bags of fat, sensuously enjoying the shadows under the trees.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

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