Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Upholding the doctrine of sensualism.
  • 2. Sensual.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Sensual.
  • adjective Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism.

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  • adjective sensual
  • adjective Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism.

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Examples

  • Clearly this was a very deliberate choice of appearance note the difference between this and the fit but sensualistic Tony Stark body in Iron Man, and Downey is just an incredible actor.

    The Beef Brigade Steven Barnes 2009

  • The first assumption that Stumpf challenges is a form of sensualistic naturalism.

    On A Trans-Atlantic Flight 2009

  • Clearly this was a very deliberate choice of appearance note the difference between this and the fit but sensualistic Tony Stark body in Iron Man, and Downey is just an incredible actor.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Steven Barnes 2009

  • The interior art is less sensualistic, and illustrates scenes from the stories more closely than the cover paintings.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Chris Perridas 2008

  • The interior art is less sensualistic, and illustrates scenes from the stories more closely than the cover paintings.

    Antiquarian Weird Tales: Our Pulp Fiction Heritage and the Significance of Moldering Magazines Chris Perridas 2008

  • "Yes, it was going to be all involved with some heavy doses of sensualistic tripe for the less discerning crowd."

    Lost in the Gardens of Nambia impetuousme 2005

  • I tend to be sensualistic early in the morning and late at night.

    Mmm, mmm, Good! barbylon 2001

  • I tend to be sensualistic early in the morning and late at night.

    Mmm, mmm, Good! barbylon 2001

  • That also is wholly controlled by laws inherent in the nature of things, and will, when the ridiculous hue and cry raised by sensualistic minds has somewhat abated, resolve itself into a fixed fact having no more direct bearing upon human affairs than any other form of social intercourse.

    Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Anna Bishop Scofield

  • The system of Condillac ends, therefore, in sensualistic empiricism, nominalism, and agnosticism.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

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