Definition of Sensual

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Sensual

Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit.

Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly.

Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious; voluptuous; lewd; libidinous.

Pertaining or peculiar to the philosophical doctrine of sensualism.

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Sensual Quotations

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
James A. Baldwin

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
Marquis de Sade

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
Franz Kafka

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
Charles Baudelaire

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
Ann Landers

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
Mortimer Adler

Sensual Translations

sensual in Dutch is zinnelijk, wellustig, sensueel
sensual in French is charnel
sensual in Italian is sensuale
sensual in Spanish is sensual
sensual in Swedish is sinnlig, sensuell

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