sensuous
adjective
gratifying the senses.
sensuousness
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a word derived from
sensuous.
Example Sentences
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These are the glory of Cycladic art, distinguished by their stylized forms, folded arms and blank faces — except for little wedge-shaped noses — also by their understated sensuousness and reverberating stillness.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
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
The show’s joyfulness is due as much to its confident aesthetic sensuousness as to its subject matter.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
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 virtue of a specific charm, too, attaches as much to the piano as to other instruments, though, perhaps, in a lesser degree of sensuousness than to some others.
From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Josef Hofmann
