Sensuality

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sensuality \Sen`su*al"i*ty\, n. [CF. F. sensualit['e], 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.


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           Those pampered animals
           That rage in savage sensuality.          --Shak.
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           They avoid dress, lest they should have affections
           tainted by any sensuality.               --Addison.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sensuality
       n : desire for sensual pleasures [syn: {sensualness}, {sensualism}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "sensuality":
     animality, bawdiness, carnality, clitoromania, coldness,
     concupiscence, dirtiness, eroticism, eroticomania, erotomania,
     flesh, fleshliness, frigidity, furor uterinus, goatishness,
     gynecomania, horniness, hysteromania, impotence, lasciviousness,
     lecherousness, lechery, lewdness, libidinousness, libido,
     lickerishness, love, lovemaking, lubriciousness, lubricity, lust,
     lustfulness, marriage, nymphomania, obscenity, potency, prurience,
     pruriency, randiness, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis,
     satyrism, sex drive, sexiness, sexual instinct, sexual urge,
     sexualism, sexuality, uteromania, voluptuousness