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Definition of Sensuality

1. Noun. Desire for sensual pleasures.

Definition of Sensuality

1. n. The quality or state of being sensual; devotedness to the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures; luxuriousness; voluptuousness; lewdness.

Definition of Sensuality

1. Noun. The state of being sensual, sensuous or sexy. ¹

2. Noun. A preoccupation with sensual pleasure. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sensuality

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Medical Definition of Sensuality

1. The state or quality of being sensual. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensuality

Literary usage of Sensuality

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-legal Study by Richard Krafft-Ebing, Charles Gilbert Chaddock (1894)
"The picture of eternity seen by the faith of the Christian is that of a paradise freed from all earthly sensuality, promising the purest of intellectual ..."

2. Manual of Political Ethics: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Colleges and by Francis Lieber, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1876)
"sensuality and Rationality.—Man can determine his own Action—is free. ... The animal is, with rare exceptions, strictly confined within its own sensuality, ..."

3. Manual of Political Ethics: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Colleges and by Francis Lieber, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1875)
"sensuality and Rationality.—Man can determine his own Action—is free. ... The animal is, with rare exceptions, strictly confined within its own sensuality, ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The coarse and common sins classify themselves under sensuality, the more refined and spiritual ones under pride. Self is in all instances central; ..."

5. The Biblical Repository and Classical Review. by American Biblical Repository (1832)
"sensuality.™* The farther however this pantheistic worship advanced towards the West, the more this decay in natural life lost the reverence paid to it; ..."

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