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Definition of Sensuous
1. Adjective. Taking delight in beauty. "The sensuous joy from all things fair"
Definition of Sensuous
1. a. Of or pertaining to the senses, or sensible objects; addressing the senses; suggesting pictures or images of sense.
Definition of Sensuous
1. Adjective. Appealing to the senses, or to sensual gratification. ¹
2. Adjective. (not comparable) Of or relating to the senses; sensory. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sensuous
1. pertaining to or derived from the senses [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensuous
Literary usage of Sensuous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1857)
"the deeper abyss of the Absolute Ideality of all that is sensuous and ...
and which is not actual and present, but of a Reality that is not sensuous. ..."
2. Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"... rather in the deeper abyss of the Absolute Ideality of all that is sensuous
and external—in the Spirit and the Heart—the heart, which, ..."
3. Elements of Logic: Together with an Introductory View of Philosophy in by Henry Philip Tappan (1856)
"THE primary sensuous cognitions, in general, are those which are formed intuitively
by the Reason, respecting the exterior world, through the force of its ..."
4. On the Study of Celtic Literature by Matthew Arnold (1867)
"Latinised Frenchman makes Paris ; the sensuous- ness of the Celt proper has ...
Even in his ideal heroic times, his gay and sensuous nature cannot carry him ..."
5. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1899)
"All sensuous Intuitions are subject to the Categories ... content given in a
sensuous intuition comes necessarily under the original synthetical unity of ..."
6. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1899)
"All sensuous Intuitions are subject to the Categories, as Conditions under which
alone the manifold Content of them can be united in one Consciousness The ..."
7. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1855)
"... either of one such as should be itself intuition, or possess a sensuous
intuition, but with forms different from those of space and time. ..."
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