Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sensuous character or quality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The quality or state of being sensuous; sensuousness.
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- noun
sensuousness
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Examples
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It is here in all its florid splendor, the whole dominated by a glowing sensuosity.
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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It leads either to sensuosity in religion, or otherwise to measuring our grace by the false rule of mere feeling.
Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A. M. Elizabeth Willits Crooks 1875
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Nor yet is it the desperate madness which impels an immortal being in pursuit of substantial good amid the dehumanizing slums of beastly sensuosity; nor firey floods of intemperance; nor yet the desolating waves of red-visaged war, after which this earnest mission is sent.
Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A. M. Elizabeth Willits Crooks 1875
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