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Dictionary: sen·su·al·i·ty   (sĕn'shū-ăl'ĭ-tē) pronunciation
n.
  1. The quality or state of being sensual or lascivious.
  2. Excessive devotion to sensual pleasure.

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noun

  1. The quality or condition of being sensual: sexiness, sexuality, suggestiveness, voluptuousness. See sex/asexual.
  2. The quality or condition of being sensuous: sensualism, sensuousness, voluptuousness. See pain/pleasure.
  3. A preoccupation with the body and satisfaction of its desires: animalism, animality, carnality, fleshliness, physicality. See body/spirit.

Antonyms: sensuality
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n

Definition: sexiness
Antonyms: asceticism


Quotes About: Sensuality
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Quotes:

"Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world." - John H. Aughey

"The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul." - Christian Nevell Bovee

"If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh." - Seneca

"I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old." - Charles Sumner

"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction." - Jonathan Swift

Translations: Sensuality
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - sanselighed, sensualitet

Nederlands (Dutch)
sensualiteit, zinnelijkheid

Français (French)
n. - sensualité

Deutsch (German)
n. - Sinnlichkeit

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αισθησιασμός, ηδονοθηρία

Italiano (Italian)
sensualità

Português (Portuguese)
n. - sensualidade (f)

Русский (Russian)
чувственность, сладострастие

Español (Spanish)
n. - sensualidad, voluptuosidad, lascivia

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - sensualitet, känslighet

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
喜爱感官享受, 淫荡, 好色

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 喜愛感官享受, 淫蕩, 好色

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 관능성, 호색, 음란

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 肉欲にふけること, 好色

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) فجور, فسوق, ألانغماس, في الشهوات ألحسيه, ألحسيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮תאוותנות, שקיעה בתענוגות, הנאת-חושים‬


 
 
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