sensualist

[ sen-shoo-uh-list ]
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noun
  1. a person given to the indulgence of the senses or appetites.

  2. a person who holds the doctrine of sensationalism.

Origin of sensualist

1
First recorded in 1655–65; sensual + -ist

Other words from sensualist

  • sen·su·al·is·tic, adjective
  • non·sen·su·al·is·tic, adjective
  • un·sen·su·al·is·tic, adjective

Words Nearby sensualist

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How to use sensualist in a sentence

  • 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.

    Larry Sultan's California Dreams | Philip Gefter | December 17, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Louis the Fifteenth, another God-defying, self-adoring sensualist.

    Ernest Linwood | Caroline Lee Hentz
  • And they debated whether the great singer was an idealist or merely a sensualist, or perhaps both.

    December Love | Robert Hichens
  • It is impossible to express more cogently the whole tragedy of the dying sensualist.

    Modernities | Horace Barnett Samuel
  • Pornography, an eminent American jurist has pointed out, is distinguished by the "leer of the sensualist."

    1601 | Mark Twain
  • Will not a sensualist do as much as this, if his physician require it for his health?