Sensuous
['sensjʊəs;'senʃʊəs] or ['sɛnʃʊəs]
Definition
(adj.) taking delight in beauty; 'the sensuous joy from all things fair' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the senses, or sensible objects; addressing the senses; suggesting pictures or images of sense.
(a.) Highly susceptible to influence through the senses.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Affecting the senses (mediately or immediately), that concerns sensible objects or impressions derived from the senses.
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Examples
- A whole village-full of sensuous emotion, scattered abroad all the year long, surged here in a focus for an hour. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It belonged in the list of softening, sensuous influences peculiar to this home of Eastern luxury. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They talked about art in a merely sensuous way, dwelling on outside effects, instead of allowing themselves to learn what it has to teach. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- She lay very still, waiting with a sensuous pleasure for the first effects of the soporific. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And our flowers are of this--our sea-born Aphrodite, all our white phosphorescent flowers of sensuous perfection, all our reality, nowadays. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He was admiring the almost wizard, sensuous apprehension of the earth, when Will Brangwen appeared, rolling down his shirt sleeves. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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