Definitions for sensualism

sensualism sen·su·al·ism

Spelling: [sen-shoo-uh-liz-uh m]
IPA: /ˈsɛn ʃu əˌlɪz əm/

Sensualism is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 609 anagrams from letters in sensualism (aeilmnsssu).

Definitions for sensualism

noun

  1. subjection to sensual appetites; sensuality.
  2. Philosophy. sensationalism (def 3).

Origin of sensualism

First recorded in 1795-1805; sensual + -ism

Examples for sensualism

This "tragedy of sensualism" has qualities too arresting to be lightly disregarded.

The prevalence of such a sensualism or aestheticism would alone suffice to explain the impotence of the arts.

A sensualism so delicate that it did not appear to be sensualism began to invade him.

If in the inverse direction, opposite the interlocutor, sensualism is indicated.

No roughness disfigures, no sensualism blights, no straining for effect chills, no meretricious ornament destroys them.

He grew able to resist the contagion of her sensualism and to make her happy, without essentially occupying himself.

She was dressed in some soft, flowing, white material which gave her more of a seraphic appearance than one of sensualism.

Not the virginity that spells a piquant preface to sensualism.

Epicurus has been branded as a libertine, and the name "Epicurean" has, in almost all languages, become the synonym of sensualism.

He had an air of sensualism, of one who held women very light.

Word Value for sensualism
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