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Sensuousness

Definition: Sensuousness

Sensuousness

Noun

1. A sensuous feeling.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sensuousness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)


Crosswords: Sensuousness

English words defined with "sensuousness": Sensuosity. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Sensuousness

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Listening Heart: The Spirituality of Sacred Sensuousness (reference)

  • Recovering Biblical sensuousness (reference)

  • The Body : Sensuousness and Spirituality (reference)

  • The Spirit of the Huckleberry: Sensuousness in Henry Thoreau (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Sensuousness

"Sensuousness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sensuousness" is used about 8 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sensuousness

Language Translations for "sensuousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏ممتعة (highly), ‏مثيرة, ‏مبهجة, ‏شهوة حسية. (various references)

   

French

  

volupté (sexual pleasure), qualité voluptueuse. (various references)

   

German

  

Sinnlichkeit (animalism, carnality, fleshliness, sensorial nature, sensualism, sensuality, voluptuousness). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αισθησιασμόσ, αισθηματικότησ (sensibility, sentimentalism, sentimentality), αισθηματικότητα (sensibility, sentimentalism, sentimentality). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

חושיות. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

érzékiség (animalism, carnality, concupiscence, eroticism, lubricity, lusciousness, prurience, pruriency, salacity, sensualism, sensuality, sins of the flesh). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ensuousnesssay

   

Romanian

  

senzualitate (concupiscence, fleshliness, lechery, lust, lustfulness, sensuality, voluptuousness). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

чувственность (carnality, eroticism, sensationism, sensuality, sensualness, sexiness). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sensualidad (carnality, fleshliness, lust, sensuality). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

duygusallık (emotionality, romanticism, sensibility, sensuality, sentiment). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính thích nhục dục, tính ưa khoái lạc dâm dục. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Sensuousness

Derivations

Words beginning with "sensuousness": sensuousnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Sensuousness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-n-n-o-s-s-s-s-s-u-u"

-4 letters: sensuous.

-5 letters: nonuses, oneness.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-n-n-o-s-s-s-s-s-u-u"
 

+1 letter: sinuousnesses.

 

+2 letters: nauseousnesses, sensuousnesses.

 

+3 letters: strenuousnesses, unseriousnesses.

 

+4 letters: incestuousnesses, stupendousnesses.

 

+5 letters: conspicuousnesses, industriousnesses, unconsciousnesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Sensuousness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 6E 73 75 6F 75 73 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .    -.    ...    ..-    ---    ..-    ...    -.    .    ...    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01101110 01110011 01110101 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#110 &#115 &#117 &#111 &#117 &#115 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006E 0073 0075 006F 0075 0073 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

537180858781878580718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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