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sensual Synonyms

sensual

modif.

Sensory
tactile, sensuous, stimulating, sharpened, pleasing, dazzling, feeling, being, heightened, enhanced, appealing, delightful, luxurious, fine, arousing, stirring, moving; see also beautiful 1, emotional 2, exciting.
Carnal
voluptuous, fleshly, bodily, physical, animal, erotic, sexual, pleasure-loving, pleasure-seeking, hedonistic, lewd, lustful, lascivious, earthy, unspiritual, self-indulgent, epicurean, sybaritic, sensuous, intemperate, gluttonous, rakish, debauched, orgiastic, hedonic, Corybantic, Cyrenaic, hoggish, bestial, gross.
Antonyms chaste*, ascetic, self-denying.

sensual stresses relation to or preoccupation with gratifying the bodily senses and may imply grossness or lewdness sensual lips; animal is applied to the physical nature of humankind as distinguished from intellectual and spiritual nature, and now often does not carry a derogatory implication animal appetites, sheer animal courage; carnal implies relation to the body or flesh as the seat of basic physical appetites, now esp. sexual appetites, and usually stresses absence of intellectual or moral influence carnal pleasures; fleshly, expressing less censure, stresses these appetites and their gratification as natural to the flesh fleshly frailty See also syn. study at sensuous.

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Another word for sensual

adjective

Of or relating to sensation or the senses:
sensational, sensitive, sensorial, sensory, sensuous. See awareness, body
Relating to, suggestive of, or appealing to sense gratification:
epicurean, sensualistic, sensuous, voluptuous. See pain
Relating to the desires and appetites of the body:
animal, carnal, fleshly, physical. See body
Suggesting sexuality:
sexual, sexy, suggestive, voluptuous. See sex
Of or preoccupied with material rather than spiritual or intellectual things:
material, materialistic. See body