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Sensual   /sˈɛnʃəwəl/   Listen
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Sensual  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit. "Pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies." "Far as creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends."
2.
Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly. "These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit." "The greatest part of men are such as prefer... that good which is sensual before whatsoever is most divine."
3.
Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious; voluptuous; lewd; libidinous. "No small part of virtue consists in abstaining from that wherein sensual men place their felicity."
4.
Pertaining or peculiar to the philosophical doctrine of sensualism.






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"Sensual" Quotes from Famous Books



... bed, and that's a good beginning for drones. Sleep is sure to play a great part in the New Year, and the glass likewise. Do you know what dwells in the glass?" asked Ole. "I will tell you. There dwell in the glass, first, health, and then pleasure, then the most complete sensual delight; and misfortune and the bitterest woe dwell in the glass also. Now, suppose we count the glasses—of course I count the different degrees in the glasses ...
— Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen

... within you something more. There is in your breast a heart beating—an organ so wonderful in its sensitiveness, so perfect in its consciousness of good, that the least throb and thrill of pleasure that it feels is worth years and ages of mere sensual life enjoyment. The body having tasted of all happiness whereof it is capable, and having found that it is good, is saturated with its own ease and enjoys less keenly. But the heart is the border-land ...
— Mr. Isaacs • F. Marion Crawford

... eyes and lips, and during the last few days remaining to him, his Madonna obtained Florette's joyous expression, while the sensual, alluring charm, that had been peculiar to the mouth of the musician's daughter, soon hovered ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... a concentration, a quintessence of Protestant feeling," answered Vincent; "I consider myself a good Protestant; but the pleasure you have in hunting these men is quite sensual, Fusby." ...
— Loss and Gain - The Story of a Convert • John Henry Newman

... panted in it. Was there ever night so silent? Following his lead, came the long column, a dark, even-moving mass, shirred with steel. Sometimes he could catch glimpses of some vivid point in the bulk: a hand, moving nervously to the sword's hilt; faces,—sensual, or vapid, or royal, side by side, but sharpened alike by a high purpose, with shut jaws, and ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 60, October 1862 • Various


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