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Definition of Sensual
1. Adjective. Marked by the appetites and passions of the body. "Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice"
Similar to: Physical
Derivative terms: Animality, Carnality, Carnalize, Sensuality, Sensualness
2. Adjective. Sexually exciting or gratifying. "A sultry dance"
Definition of Sensual
1. a. Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit.
Definition of Sensual
1. Adjective. Inducing pleasurable and/or erotic sensations. ¹
2. Adjective. (not comparable) Of or pertaining to the physical senses; sensory. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sensual
1. pertaining to the physical senses [adj]
Medical Definition of Sensual
1. 1. Relating to the body and the senses, as distinguished from the intellect or spirit. 2. Denoting bodily or sensory pleasure, not necessarily sexual. Origin: L. Sensualis, endowed with feeling (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensual
Literary usage of Sensual
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"To sink to sensual pleasures ; to degrade the mind into subjection to the senses.
... [from sensual.] In a sensual manner. Not to suffer one's self to be ..."
2. History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church by the Apostles by August Neander (1844)
"Hence we must consider in every instance, the preponderance of sensual inclination
over reason, according to Paul's view, only as an essential consequence ..."
3. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"LECTURE X sensual FUSION Argument: Nervous integration in relation to bodily ...
sensual fusion in a relatively simple instance of binocular vision. ..."
4. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"LECTURE X sensual FUSION Argument: Nervous integration in relation to bodily ...
sensual fusion in a relatively simple instance of binocular vision. ..."
5. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"X sensual FUSION Argument; Nervous integration in relation to bodily movement and to
... sensual fusion in a relatively simple instance of binocular vision. ..."
6. Buddhism in Translations by Henry Clarke Warren (1896)
"The following is the definition various, The attachment of sensual pleasure is
attachment with some form of sensual pleasure as its object. ..."
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