noun
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the quality or state of being sensual
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excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures
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Etymology
Origin of sensuality
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English sensualite, from Old French, from Late Latin sēnsuālitās; equivalent to sensual + -ity
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A strikingly potent Frida, Isabel Leonard used her velvety mezzo to find the drama of the artist’s remembered torment as well as the undulating sensuality of her love for painting and colors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
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
"His surroundings must be his most effective defence for a record of arrogance, cruelty, sensuality and greed while in power at Madras," he wrote.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024
Their romance is in some ways expressed more through cooking and eating than through words, which is one reason that accentuating the sensuality of the food was important for Tran.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
"Mysticism was like a sanctification of African sensuality, and fanaticism was a turning against ourselves, when the Reconquest ended, of the fury accumulated during eight centuries of combat."
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
He next argues how men of noblesse ought to leave sensualities and delights.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
But man, immersed in the flux of sensualities, can never fully attain this high excellence—the knowledge of God, the object of all rational inquiry.
From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord
The former took refuge in the mystic sensualities of the worship of Isis, the latter in the Stoical rules of life.
From Essays and Lectures by Oscar Wilde
They renounce the world, towns, sensualities, pleasures, vanities, pride, interests.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
These evil-disposed affections and sensualities in us are always contrary to the rule of our salvation.
From Sermons on the Card by Henry Morley
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