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Another word for sensual

Adjective

  1. Of or relating to sensation or the senses

    2. See also:

    body

    awareness

  2. Relating to, suggestive of, or appealing to sense gratification

    3. See also:

    pain

  3. Relating to the desires and appetites of the body

    4. See also:

    body

  4. Suggesting sexuality

    5. See also:

    sex

  5. Of or preoccupied with material rather than spiritual or intellectual things

    6. See also:

    body

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Synonym Study

  • Fleshly , expressing less censure, stresses these appetites and their gratification as natural to the flesh fleshly frailty See also syn. study at sensuous.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sensual stresses relation to or preoccupation with gratifying the bodily senses and may imply grossness or lewdness sensual lips
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Sentence Examples

  • Her fingers caressed his bare forearms, the sensual touch increasing her pulse.

  • His will-power had early been undermined by the opium habit, and was further weakened by the sensual excesses that ultimately killed him.

  • Sitting like that with the warmth of his chest on her back was sensual and soothing at the same time.

  • The aim is not self-destruction, but self-preservation; and yet the ethics of Manichaeism appears in point of fact as thoroughly ascetic. The Manichaean had, above all, to refrain from sensual enjoyment, shutting himself up against it by three seals - the signaculum oris, manus and sinus.

  • She backed out of the sensual room and returned to the living area.

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