sensuous
adjective
gratifying the senses.
sensuousness
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a word derived from
sensuous.
Example Sentences
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Wayne Thiebaud, whose luscious, colorful paintings of cakes and San Francisco cityscapes combined sensuousness, nostalgia and a hint of melancholy, died on Dec. 25.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2021
That high-pile sentence makes no effort to separate the allure of costly appliances from the sensuousness of the coffee and the dark cream.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2017
“The idea that the intellect is somehow alien to sensuousness, or vice versa, is one that I have never been able to connect with,” he told The Paris Review in an interview in 2000.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2016
Perhaps, fearful of losing the attention of their readers, novelists are borrowing the captivating force of music, feeding off its sensuousness in an effort to regain a lost immediacy.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 27, 2015
Yorick’s whim and sentiment are quite wanting, and the sensuousness, especially as pertains to corporeal beauty, is distinctly Goethean.
From Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer
