sensualist

American  

[sen-shoo-uh-list] / ˈsɛn ʃu ə lɪst /

noun

1. a person given to the indulgence of the senses or appetites.

2. a person who holds the doctrine of sensationalism.

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Other Word Forms

• nonsensualistic
  adjective
• sensualistic
  adjective
• unsensualistic
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of sensualist

First recorded in 1655–65; sensual + -ist

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

sensualist

And Sorrentino, a dedicated sensualist, does allow himself some lighter touches, including, toward the end, a fanciful visual metaphor for a burdened man’s spirit that maybe only he could get away with.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2025

Rajamouli is a cinematic sensualist, something not often seen or appreciated in the action genre.

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2022

Bourdain, who died almost exactly three years ago at the age of 61, was many things — chef, sensualist, addict, world traveler — any one of which could have served as the movie’s lodestar.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2021

The odes are so beautiful — and Keats’s image as a sensualist, an effete Romantic aesthete, so firmly established — that it is easy to overlook how philosophically accomplished and profound they are.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2021

Then shall we learn to despise the low aims and contracted views of the sensualist, the demagogue, and the worldling.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

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