sensualize

American  

[sen-shoo-uh-lahyz] / ˈsɛn ʃu əˌlaɪz /

especially British, sensualise

verb (used with object)

sensualized, sensualizing

1. to render sensual.

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Other Word Forms

• sensualization noun
• unsensualized adjective

Etymology

Origin of sensualize

First recorded in 1605–15; sensual + -ize

Example Sentences

With nine dancers moving slowly and rhythmically in couples or groups, the performances sensualize and sexualize the houses.

From New York Times

To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize.

From Project Gutenberg

Aschenbach lurches from overly repressed to overly sensualized, dyeing his hair, rouging his cheeks and stuffing his mouth with overripe strawberries.

From New York Times

In this one sentence is contained the whole secret of profligacy; and profligacy is the same as cynicism, only it is cynicism sensualized.

From Project Gutenberg

That which begins in the heart ennobles the whole animal being, but that which begins in the inferior departments of our being is the most entire degradation and sensualizing of the soul.

From Project Gutenberg