sensuousness
- 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
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 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
Rossetti, D. G., 240-244; his sensuousness, 241-242; his treatment of nature, 243; his ballads, 243; and Christina Rossetti, 245.
From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh
