noun
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the quality or state of being sensual
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excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures
Other Word Forms
- antisensuality noun
- hypersensuality noun
- nonsensuality noun
- sensualist noun
Etymology
Origin of sensuality
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English sensualite, from Old French, from Late Latin sēnsuālitās; equivalent to sensual + -ity
Example Sentences
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On screen, Brigitte Bardot was a cocktail of kittenish charm and continental sensuality, but it was an image she grew to loathe - eventually abandoning her career to campaign for animal welfare.
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025
In portraiture, like Sargent’s Dr. Pozzi at Home or Raphael’s Portrait of a Cardinal, red can communicate faith, sensuality or power.
From Salon • May 17, 2024
Pointing out bubbles and fractures in the resin, she explains that presenting the objects behind glass would feel static, frozen in time, which is not at all the animate sensuality she wanted to convey.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2023
Because her journey is solitary, “Death Valley” lacks the interpersonal richness and sensuality of “Milk Fed.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2023
Such hideous faces, such deformed figures, such monstrous distortion and debasement, such general ugliness and sensuality, oppress one with a feeling of melancholy rather than exhilaration.
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James
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