sensuality
[sen-shoo-al-i-tee]
Show More
Sometimes sen·su·al·ness [sen-shoo-uh l-nis] /ˈsɛn ʃu əl nɪs/.
Origin of sensuality
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
Related Words
sexualityeroticismhotnesspassionsensualismcarnalitylasciviousnessanimalismanimalitysuggestivenessExamples from the Web for sensuality
Contemporary Examples
The premise comes and goes, however, and even the rest of “Clouds” focuses more on sensuality than sci-fi.
Prince Returns From the Wilderness and, Thankfully, Is as Restless as EverKeith Phipps
October 1, 2014
His photographs major on legs, lips, sensuality of the female form?
No historian, biographer, or myth-maker such as Carl Sandberg has ever written about his sensuality.
We can feel her sensuality and willfulness in the first daguerreotype we have of Mary, taken in 1846, when she was twenty-seven.
It is in no way my job to embody an idealized form of beauty and sensuality.
Historical Examples
Their plan exhibits the barbarity of the age and the sensuality of the king.
Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. IFrancis Augustus Cox
For most of us the strain of sensuality in our loves is very strong.
The Truth About WomanC. Gasquoine Hartley
An odour of luxury and sensuality floated through the apartment.
Masterpieces of MysteryVarious
Avarice was his master-passion; and, second to this, gross sensuality.
But she had enveloped my whole being in the poison of sensuality.
BalthasarAnatole France
sensuality
- the quality or state of being sensual
- excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures
Show More
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for sensuality
n.
mid-14c., "the part of man that is concerned with the senses," from Old French sensualite "the five senses; impression," from Late Latin sensualitatem (nominative sensualitas) "capacity for sensation," from Latin sensualis "endowed with feeling, sensitive," from sensus "feeling" (see sense (n.)). Chiefly "animal instincts and appetites," hence "the lower nature regarded as a source of evil, lusts of the flesh" (1620s).
Show More
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper