1 connected with your physical feelings; giving pleasure to your physical senses, especially sexual pleasure:
sensual pleasure / delight * Food is a great sensual experience.
2 suggesting an interest in physical pleasure, especially sexual pleasure:
sensual lips / eyes * He was darkly sensual and mysterious.
sensuality noun [U]:
the sensuality of his poetry * Her face had an air of sleepy sensuality.
sensually adverb
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WHICHWORD?
sensual / sensuous / sensory
These adjectives are frequently used with the following nouns:
sensual ~ sensuous ~ sensory ~
pleasure mouth perception
mouth lips stimulation
desire pleasure experience
woman colour deprivation
voice music
Sensual and sensuous are very similar and refer to things that give pleasure to your senses, especially sexual pleasure, or that suggest an interest in sexual pleasure.
Sensuous also describes the pleasure that art and music can give to your senses.
Sensory is used in technical contexts and means 'connected with the senses'.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sensual is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is sensual a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sensual is tagged as adjective.
Does sensual appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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