What is another word for sensuality?

Pronunciation: [sˌɛnsjuːˈalɪti] (IPA)

Sensuality is a term often used to describe an experience that is pleasurable and arousing to the senses. There are many synonyms for this word, each with its own unique connotation. For example, eroticism refers to a more explicit and overtly sexual experience, while romance emphasizes intimacy and emotional connection. Seduction suggests a more deliberate and calculated approach to sensual pleasure, while passion connotes intense desire and enthusiasm. Desire is another synonym that emphasizes the intense feeling of wanting or longing for something or someone. All of these terms can be used to describe a range of experiences, from a sensual massage to a passionate love affair.

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What are the hypernyms for Sensuality?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for sensuality?

Sensuality is the quality of being physically or sexually attractive, pleasing, or gratifying. Some of the antonyms for sensuality include dullness, unattractiveness, dryness, asceticism, and prudishness. Dullness refers to lack of excitement or liveliness. Unattractiveness refers to the quality of being unappealing or unattractive. Dryness implies a lack of moisture or sensuality, especially when it comes to sexual matters. Asceticism denotes self-discipline and abstinence from physical pleasures. Prudishness is the opposite of sensuality as it entails avoidance of sexual indulgence or expression of sexuality. These antonyms illustrate the opposite characteristics of sensuality, and are useful in describing different attitudes and behaviors.

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Usage examples for Sensuality

With the peculiar sensuality of his race, he loved his dinner all to himself and alone.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Absent-minded sensuality is a baffling phenomenon.
"Command"
William McFee
He saw his daughter perverted into a heavy slatternly drudge; he saw his son go moping down the ways of low sensuality, to brutality and crime; he saw the dawning light of intelligence in the eyes of his babies so changing into cunning and suspicion, that he could have rather wished them idiots.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

Famous quotes with Sensuality

  • sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
    Jose Bergamin
  • To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
    Jose Bergamin
  • I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
    George Byron
  • To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
    Charles Horton Cooley
  • What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?
    Lara St. John

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