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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SENSUAL'ITY, n. Devotedness o the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures.
Those pamper'd animals
That rage in savage sensuality. Shak.
They avoid dress, lest they should have affections tainted by any sensuality. Addison.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: desire for sensual pleasures [syn: sensuality, sensualness, sensualism]

Merriam Webster's

noun see sensual

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. gratification of the senses, self-indulgence. Etymology: ME f. F sensualité f. LL sensualitas (as SENSUAL)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sensuality Sen`su*al"i*ty, n. [CF. F. sensualit['e], L. sensualitas sensibility, capacity for sensation.] The quality or state of being sensual; devotedness to the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures; luxuriousness; voluptuousness; lewdness. Those pampered animals That rage in savage sensuality. --Shak. They avoid dress, lest they should have affections tainted by any sensuality. --Addison.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see sensual

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Voluptuousness, carnality. 2. Lewdness, dissoluteness, licentiousness.

Moby Thesaurus

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