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sensuality [ sen-shoo-al -i-tee ] SHOW IPA
/ ˌsɛn ʃuˈæl ɪ ti / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun, plural sen·su·al·i·ties.
sensual nature: the sensuality of Keats's poetry. unrestrained indulgence in sensual pleasures. lewdness; unchastity.
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sen·su·al·ness [sen -shoo-uh l-nis] /ˈsɛn ʃu əl nɪs/ .
Origin of sensuality 1300–50; Middle English
sensualite <Old French <Late Latin
sēnsuālitās. See
sensual ,
-ity
OTHER WORDS FROM sensuality an·ti·sen·su·al·i·ty, noun, plural an·ti·sen·su·al·i·ties, adjective hy·per·sen·su·al·i·ty, noun non·sen·su·al·i·ty, noun
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How to use sensuality in a sentence Game of Thrones proved that combining sensuality with fantasy is a compelling draw.
Whatever Rodin’s original vision, the resulting erotism of the piece, its powerful sensuality , is what makes it so captivating.
Her role as the Aes Sedai chiefess, too, is underwritten, but the actress radiates warmth heated by sensuality and tempered by practicality, exuding a sense of a life lived.
We meet Linda—played as a beautiful mess of innocence, impulsivity and sensuality by Lily James—in a flash-forward that successfully distances the miniseries from any connotation of stiffness we might associate with British period dramas.
On the surface, it lyrically encompassed sexuality and sensuality in an intriguing manner.
The premise comes and goes, however, and even the rest of “Clouds” focuses more on sensuality than sci-fi.
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.
This maternal sensuality , she adds, is in no way an attempt to sexualize her children or herself.
Baudelaire had, in the matter of perfumes, a strangely subtle sensuality which is rarely to be met with except amongst Orientals.
In the intervals of his serious labors Napoleon gave way to a life of sensuality , and the women were prodigal of their charms.
I no longer habitually cherish physical sloth and luxury, which excite to excessive sensuality .
In some of the faces that passed him he saw only a careless sensuality brightened by the flush of excitement.
He never lost the veneration of his countrymen,--and no veneration can last for a man steeped in sensuality .
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British Dictionary definitions for sensuality
noun plural -ties
the quality or state of being sensual
excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures
Derived forms of sensuality sensualist (ˈsɛnsjʊəlɪst ), noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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