sensualist
[sen-shoo-uh-list]
- a person given to the indulgence of the senses or appetites.
- a person who holds the doctrine of sensationalism.
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Origin of sensualist
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
Examples from the Web for sensualist
Contemporary Examples
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.
Historical Examples
To see a man eat sensually is to know how great a sensualist he is.
No Animal FoodRupert H. Wheldon
The sensualist has brutified the seraphic nature with which he was endowed.
DeerbrookHarriet Martineau
He was a sensualist in all ways, but a great and self-educated scholar.
The Greville Memoirs (Second Part)Charles C. F. Greville
She was no sensualist, longing to drowse sleepily in the lap of luxury.
Sister CarrieTheodore Dreiser
It may lead, in the soul of the infidel or sensualist, to the idolatry of art.
Word Origin and History for sensualist
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper