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Definition: Sensuous |
SensuousAdjective1. Taking delight in beauty; "the sensuous joy from all things fair". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sensuous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1714. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Feeling | Adjective: feeling; Verb: sentient; sensuous; sensorial, sensory; emotive, emotional; of feeling, with feeling; n. |
Physical Pleasure | Noun: pleasure; physical pleasure, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure; bodily enjoyment, animal gratification, hedonism, sensuality; luxuriousness. Adjective: dissipation, round of pleasure, titillation, gusto, creature comforts, comfort, ease; pillow. (support); luxury, lap of luxury; purple and fine linen; bed of downs, bed of roses; velvet, clover; cup of Circe. (intemperance). |
Physical Sensibility | Adjective: sensible, sensitive, sensuous; aesthetic, perceptive, sentient; conscious. (aware). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sensuous |
| English words defined with "sensuous": Aesthesis ♦ belly dance, belly dancing, bon vivant ♦ danse du ventre, dissoluteness ♦ epicure, Epicurean ♦ gastronome, gourmet ♦ incontinence, Insensuous ♦ lubricious, lustful ♦ prurient ♦ salacious, self-gratification, Sensuosity, sensuousness, Supersensuous. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sensuous": Insensuous. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Sensuous Vixens (1974) The Sensuous Lion Frasier (1973) Sensuous Tales (1985) The Sensuous Detective (1979) Sensuous Flygirls (1976) | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | In part, therefore, the attachment which I speak of is the mere sensuous sympathy of dust for dust. |
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| "Sensuous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.51% of the time. "Sensuous" is used about 203 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.51% | 202 | 21,454 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.49% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 203 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sensuous": sensuous-emotional. | |
Ending with "sensuous": quasi-sensuous. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "sensuous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sensual (carnal, fleshly, sensual), i ndjeshëm (appreciable, delicate, fast, perceptible, sensible, sensitive, sentient, sentimental, susceptive, tender, thin-skinned, touchy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сетивен (material, sensate, sensational, sense, sensible, sensorial, sensory, sensual), чувствен (amorous, fleshly, lush, material, sensual, voluptuous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | smyslný (carnal, earthly, Randy, sensual, sultry, voluptuous, wanton). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wellustig (sensual, voluptuous), sensueel (sensual). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | sensama (sensual). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیرومحسوسات ولذات نفسانی , مبنی برلذات جسمانی , وابسته به حواس یااحساسات . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | aistillinen (erotic, sensual). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | voluptueux (sensualist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sinnlich (carnal, sensorial, sensory, sensual, sensuously, voluptuous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αισθησιακόσ (sensationalistic, sensual, voluptuous), αισθηματικόσ (sentimental), αισθητικόσ (aesthetic, aesthetician, sensible, sensitive, sentient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חושי (sensory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | érzéki (amatory, amorous, carnal, concupiscent, erotic, lecherous, libidinous, luscious, prurient, salacious, sensational, sensory, sensual, voluptuous), érzékekkel kapcsolatos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | nikmat (comfortable, delicious, enjoyable, enjoyful, grace, luxury, pleasant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sensuale (fleshly, sensual, voluptuary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 感覚的 (sensible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | か"かくてき (sensible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | soyllar (voluptuousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ensuoussay sensual (amative, bestial, boarish, brutish, carnal, concupiscent, epicureanism, fleshpot, goatling, high-sounding, incontinently, laser, Lewis, libidinousness, lubricous, lustful, sensual, sexy, unreserved, voluptuous, wanton), sensível (accessible, delicate, feeling, finicky, huffish, huffy, impressible, kid glove, novelettish, peseta, responsive, sensible, sensitive, sensory, sentient, sentimental, sore, susceptible, tender, thinskinned, ticklish), relativo aos sentidos. (various references) senzual (amative, carnal, concupiscent, fleshly, fleshy, full-blooded, lecherous, lustful, luxurious, Randy, salacious, sensual, voluptuous), senzorial (sense, sensorial, sensory), voluptos (sensual, voluptuous), trupesc (bodily, burly, carnal, Corporal, corporeal, earthy, fleshly), ameţitor (astounding, deafening, dizzily, dizzy, giddy, intoxicating, potent, staggering, stunning, vertiginous). (various references) чувственный (carnal, libidinous, sensual, sexy, voluptuous). (various references) osetljiv (dainty, fast, pettish, queasy, sensible, sensitive, sentient, susceptible, tetchy, thin-skinned), čulni (sensory). (various references) sensual (sensual). (various references) sinnlig (carnal, fleshly, pertaining to sense, sensual, voluptuous). (various references) hissi (emotional, sensational, sensual, sentimental), duyumsal (sensorial, sensory), duygusal (affective, emotional, emotive, feeling, sensational, sensual, sentimental, soulful, susceptible, susceptive), duygulara hitap eden (sentimental). (various references) чутт"вий (sensational, sensual, voluptuous), плотський (carnal, earthy, fleshly, libidinous, material, pandemic). (various references) ưa khoái lạc dâm dục. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sensuous": sensuously, sensuousness, sensuousnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sensuous": nonsensuous. (additional references) | |
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"Sensuous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: senseous, sensious, sensous, sensuouys, sentuous, senuous, Setsuo, sinusous, sunsuous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sensuous" (pronounced se"nkhuwus) |
| 5 | -kh u w u s | fatuous, presumptuous, tortuous, voluptuous. |
| 4 | -u w u s | tenuous, unambiguous. |
| 3 | -w u s | assiduous, impetuous, incestuous, inconspicuous, marquess, promiscuous, sinuous, sumptuous, unctuous. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-o-s-s-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: nouses, onuses, souses. | |
-3 letters: noses, sones, souse. | |
-4 letters: eons, ness, noes, nose, nous, ones, onus, oses, sone, sons, sous, sues, suns, suss, uses. | |
-5 letters: ens, eon, ess, nos, nus, oes, one, ons, ose, sen, son, sos, sou, sue, sun, uns, use. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-o-s-s-s-u-u" | |
+2 letters: sensuously. | |
+3 letters: arduousness, curiousness, dubiousness, emulousness, fatuousness, nonsensuous, raucousness, ruinousness, sinuousness, soulfulness, tenuousness, unsoundness, vacuousness. | |
+4 letters: bibulousness, cautiousness, cumbrousness, exiguousness, fabulousness, glaucousness, humorousness, luminousness, lusciousness, lustrousness, mutinousness, nauseousness, nebulousness, numerousness, numinousness, populousness, sedulousness, sensuousness, spuriousness, studiousness, tortuousness, unctuousness, usuriousness, uxoriousness, virtuousness. | |
+5 letters: ambiguousness, arduousnesses, assiduousness, audaciousness, beauteousness, bounteousness, bumptiousness, congruousness, courteousness, credulousness, curiousnesses, deciduousness, dubiousnesses, emulousnesses, fatuousnesses, garrulousness, househusbands, impetuousness, incuriousness, ingenuousness, injuriousness, innocuousness, judiciousness, ludicrousness, luxuriousness, murderousness, pendulousness, penuriousness, querulousness, rapturousness, raucousnesses, ruinousnesses, sinuousnesses, soulfulnesses, strenuousness, sulfurousness, sumptuousness, supersurgeons, tenuousnesses, tremulousness, troublousness, unconsciouses, uncouthnesses, unseriousness, unsoundnesses, vacuousnesses, venturousness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6E 73 75 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . -. ... ..- --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101110 01110011 01110101 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e n s u o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006E 0073 0075 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5371808587818785 |
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