sensuous
pronunciation
How to pronounce sensuous in British English:
UK [ˈsenʃuəs]
How to pronounce sensuous in American English:
US [ˈsenʃuəs]
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- Adjective:
- taking delight in beauty
Word Origin
- sensuous (adj.)
- 1640s, "pertaining to the senses" apparently coined by Milton to recover the original meaning of sensual and avoid the lascivious connotation that the older word had acquired, but by 1870 sensuous, too, had begun down the same path and come to mean "alive to the pleasures of the senses." Rare before Coleridge popularized it "To express in one word all that appertains to the perception, considered as passive and merely recipient ...." (1814). From Latin sensus (see sense (n.)) + -ous. Related: Sensuously; sensuousness.
Example
- 1. I am a passionate person and very sensuous .
- 2. Sculpture is a sensuous art .
- 3. A husky cuban voice belted into the night , rich and sensuous over the rhythmic drumming .
- 4. That , or a sensuous city life of alternating between street art missions and serving time .
- 5. Since seeing is a sensuous action , we sometimes see things unconsciously and they can become the basis of some types of personal expression .