Antonyms for sensuous
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : sen-shoo-uh s |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛn ʃu əs |
Definition of sensuous
Origin :- 1640s, "pertaining to the senses" apparently coined by Milton to recover the original meaning of sensual and avoid the lascivious connotation that the older word had acquired, but by 1870 sensuous, too, had begun down the same path and come to mean "alive to the pleasures of the senses." Rare before Coleridge popularized it "To express in one word all that appertains to the perception, considered as passive and merely recipient ...." (1814). From Latin sensus (see sense (n.)) + -ous. Related: Sensuously; sensuousness.
- adj gratifying to senses
- Matter may really be considered as our sensuous misreading of the spiritual.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- No, the spiritual ought not and can not be free from the sensuous, even the sensual.
- Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
- He wanted the very life of beauty to take the place of sensuous suggestion.
- Extract from : « Adventures in the Arts » by Marsden Hartley
- In Venice there had long been a love of objects for their sensuous beauty.
- Extract from : « The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance » by Bernhard Berenson
- Especially the sixteenth century ran riot in sensuous worship.
- Extract from : « The Education of Henry Adams » by Henry Adams
- Their whole conception and practical understanding of it is sensuous.
- Extract from : « Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women » by George Sumner Weaver
- This is why I have always been so much drawn to the French, who are so æsthetic, so sensuous.
- Extract from : « A Bundle of Letters » by Henry James
- She chose those poems the least sensuous, and the more abstract.
- Extract from : « Man and Maid » by Elinor Glyn
- The other was not for the sensuous nature, but for the moral.
- Extract from : « Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History » by Thomas Carlyle
- He yielded, body and soul, to the sensuous miracle of the steam, and slept.
- Extract from : « IT and Other Stories » by Gouverneur Morris
Synonyms for sensuous
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