Definition of Sensuous

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Definition of Sensuous
	Sensuous Of or pertaining to the senses, or sensible objects; addressing the senses; suggesting pictures or images of sense. Highly susceptible to influence through the senses. Related Definitions: Addressing, Highly, Influence, Of, Or, Pertaining, Sense, Sensible, Suggesting, Susceptible, The, Through, To

Sensuous Quotations

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine

I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
Calvin Klein

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print.
John Sexton

I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.
Aaron Spelling

The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.
Kate Chopin

And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.
Friedrich Schleiermacher

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.
Johann G. Hamann

Sensuous Translations

sensuous in Dutch is sensueel, wellustig, zinnelijk
sensuous in German is sinnlich, sinnlich, sinnenfreudig
sensuous in Swedish is sinnlig

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