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sensualist
[ sen-shoo-uh-list ]
noun
- a person given to the indulgence of the senses or appetites.
- a person who holds the doctrine of sensationalism.
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Other Words From
- sensu·al·istic adjective
- nonsen·su·al·istic adjective
- unsen·su·al·istic adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sensualist1
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Example Sentences
Fitzgerald was a romantic but not a sensualist, a limitation in his writing he acknowledged.
Here is what I always loved about him: he was contemplative, playful, curious, generous, and a sensualist with style.
Louis the Fifteenth, another God-defying, self-adoring sensualist.
And they debated whether the great singer was an idealist or merely a sensualist, or perhaps both.
It is impossible to express more cogently the whole tragedy of the dying sensualist.
Pornography, an eminent American jurist has pointed out, is distinguished by the "leer of the sensualist."
Will not a sensualist do as much as this, if his physician require it for his health?
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