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Webster 1913 Edition

Sensuality

Senˊsu-al′i-ty

,
Noun.
[CF. F.
sensualité
, L.
sensualitas
sensibility, capacity for sensation.]
The quality or state of being sensual; devotedness to the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures; luxuriousness; voluptuousness; lewdness.
Those pampered animals
That rage in savage
sensuality
.
Shakespeare
They avoid dress, lest they should have affections tainted by any
sensuality
.
Addison.

Webster 1828 Edition

Sensuality

SENSUAL'ITY

,
Noun.
Devotedness o the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures.
Those pamper'd animals
That rage in savage sensuality. Shak.
They avoid dress, lest they should have affections tainted by any sensuality. Addison.

Definition 2024

sensuality

sensuality

English

Noun

sensuality ‎(countable and uncountable, plural sensualities)

  1. (uncountable) The state of being sensual, sensuous or sexy.
  2. (countable) A preoccupation with sensual pleasure.

Translations

References

  • sensuality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Etymology

From Middle French sensualité, from Late Latin sensualitas ‎(“sensibility, capacity for sensation”).

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