sensuous

[sen-shoo-uh s]

adjective

perceived by or affecting the senses: the sensuous qualities of music.
readily affected through the senses: a sensuous temperament.
of or relating to sensible objects or to the senses.

Origin of sensuous

1630–40; < Latin sēnsu(s) sense + -ous

Related formssen·su·ous·ly, adverbsen·su·ous·ness, sen·su·os·i·ty

[sen-shoo-os-i-tee] /ˌsɛn ʃuˈɒs ɪ ti/, nounan·ti·sen·su·ous, adjectivean·ti·sen·su·ous·ly, adverban·ti·sen·su·ous·ness, nounhy·per·sen·su·ous, adjectivehy·per·sen·su·ous·ly, adverbhy·per·sen·su·ous·ness, nounnon·sen·su·ous, adjectivenon·sen·su·ous·ly, adverbnon·sen·su·ous·ness, nounsub·sen·su·ous, adjectivesub·sen·su·ous·ly, adverbsub·sen·su·ous·ness, nounsu·per·sen·su·ous, adjectivesu·per·sen·su·ous·ly, adverbsu·per·sen·su·ous·ness, nounun·sen·su·ous, adjectiveun·sen·su·ous·ly, adverbun·sen·su·ous·ness, noun

Can be confusedsensual sensuous (see synonym study at sensual)

Synonyms

1. See sensual. 2. feeling, sensible. 3. sentient.

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Examples from the Web for sensuously

Historical Examples

Now whether this completeness is sensuously possible, is a problem.
The Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
She had not believed it could seem so beautiful, so magnificent, so sensuously seductive.
Joan Thursday
Louis Joseph Vance
Dupont's voice was a tenor, not powerful, but deliciously, sensuously sweet.
For the Major
Constance Fenimore Woolson
And all around her are women of the same type, exotic products of a society highly artificial, sensuously material.
In Vanity Fair
Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
As a healthy and sensuously vigorous man he felt a voluptuous satisfaction in clasping actual nature in his herculean arms.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 2 (of 4)
Richard Muther

British Dictionary definitions for sensuously

sensuous

adjective

aesthetically pleasing to the senses
appreciative of or moved by qualities perceived by the senses
of, relating to, or derived from the senses

Derived Formssensuously, adverbsensuousness, noun

Word Origin

C17: apparently coined by Milton to avoid the unwanted overtones of sensual; not in common use until C19: from Latin sēnsus sense + -ous

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Word Origin and History for sensuously

sensuous

adj.

1640s, "pertaining to the senses" apparently coined by Milton to recover the original meaning of sensual and avoid the lascivious connotation that the older word had acquired, but by 1870 sensuous, too, had begun down the same path and come to mean "alive to the pleasures of the senses." Rare before Coleridge popularized it "To express in one word all that appertains to the perception, considered as passive and merely recipient ...." (1814). From Latin sensus (see sense (n.)) + -ous. Related: Sensuously; sensuousness.

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Synonyms

Examples from the Web for sensuously

Historical Examples

Now whether this completeness is sensuously possible, is a problem.

She had not believed it could seem so beautiful, so magnificent, so sensuously seductive.

Dupont's voice was a tenor, not powerful, but deliciously, sensuously sweet.

And all around her are women of the same type, exotic products of a society highly artificial, sensuously material.

As a healthy and sensuously vigorous man he felt a voluptuous satisfaction in clasping actual nature in his herculean arms.

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Word Origin

Word Origin and History for sensuously

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adj.

Origin of sensuous