Vocabulary Word
Word: sensuous
Definition: giving pleasure to the senses; pertaining to the physical senses; operating through the senses; sensuous feeling of soft velvet on the skin
Definition: giving pleasure to the senses; pertaining to the physical senses; operating through the senses; sensuous feeling of soft velvet on the skin
Sentences Containing 'sensuous'
Without this relationship we have no direct means of making the sensuous material of art awaken an answering echo in others.
After a partial cessation of his sensuous life, the soul of man, or its organs rather, are reinvigorated each day, and his Genius tries again what noble life it can make.
More Vocab Words
::: subservient - behaving like a slave; servile; obsequious; subordinate; N. subservience::: headstrong - willful; stubborn; unyielding; determined to have one's own way; CF. no 'excessive'
::: rejuvenate - make young again
::: spontaneity - lack of premeditation; naturalness; freedom from constraint; ADJ. spontaneous: self-generated; unpremeditated; happening without being planned
::: ineffable - unutterable; not to be uttered; taboo; that cannot be expressed in speech; indescribable; unspeakable; inexpressible; Ex. ineffable name/joy
::: metrical - metric; written in the form of poetry; Ex. metrical translation of Homer
::: arduous - hard; strenuous; Ex. arduous work
::: exigency - urgent situation; ADJ. exigent
::: mollify - soothe an angry person
::: magnanimity - generosity; ADJ. magnanimous: generous
