noun
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the quality or state of being sensual
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excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures
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Origin of sensuality
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English sensualite, from Old French, from Late Latin sēnsuālitās; equivalent to sensual + -ity
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A strikingly potent Frida, Isabel Leonard used her velvety mezzo to find the drama of the artist’s remembered torment as well as the undulating sensuality of her love for painting and colors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
The conductor Soo-Yeoul Choi favors transparency and sensuality at the same time with expressive gestures that seem to magically mold sound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
In portraiture, like Sargent’s Dr. Pozzi at Home or Raphael’s Portrait of a Cardinal, red can communicate faith, sensuality or power.
From Salon ● May 17, 2024
"His surroundings must be his most effective defence for a record of arrogance, cruelty, sensuality and greed while in power at Madras," he wrote.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024
The present writer, having perused some thou-sands of documents concerning Paine, is convinced that no charge of sensuality could have been brought against him by any one acquainted with the facts, except out of malice.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway
Nor had we any more understanding for Renoir's rich sensualities of tone; nor did the mastery with which he achieves an absence of shadow appeal to us.
From Confessions of a Young Man by George (George Augustus) Moore
Nor did we understand any more Renoir's rich sensualities of tone; nor did the mastery with which he achieves an absence of shadow appeal to us.
From Confessions of a Young Man by George (George Augustus) Moore
With their taste thus exalted to better pleasures, the youth of all classes were saved from the brutalizing sensualities that destroy character and health.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems
They renounce the world, towns, sensualities, pleasures, vanities, pride, interests.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
The former took refuge in the mystic sensualities of the worship of Isis, the latter in the Stoical rules of life.
From Essays and Lectures by Oscar Wilde
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