sensualist

American  

[sen-shoo-uh-list] / ˈsɛn ʃu ə lɪst /

noun

1. a person given to the indulgence of the senses or appetites.

2. a person who holds the doctrine of sensationalism.

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Other Word Forms

• nonsensualistic
  adjective
• sensualistic
  adjective
• unsensualistic
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of sensualist

First recorded in 1655–65; sensual + -ist

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

sensualist

And Sorrentino, a dedicated sensualist, does allow himself some lighter touches, including, toward the end, a fanciful visual metaphor for a burdened man’s spirit that maybe only he could get away with.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2025

When a poem of hers, "Spring," was rejected — the editor found its style too "sensualist," à la Romantic poetry — she decided to send it to Seventeen magazine instead.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2022

The odes are so beautiful — and Keats’s image as a sensualist, an effete Romantic aesthete, so firmly established — that it is easy to overlook how philosophically accomplished and profound they are.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2021

Mr. Gyllenhaal’s Seurat may be routinely described as cold and distant, but he’s unmistakably a sensualist, too.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2017

But the business man is dependent upon the emotionalist and the sensualist, too, for the success of his designs.

From Command by William McFee

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