sensuality
sen·su·al·ity (sen′s̸ho̵̅o̅ al′ə tē)
noun
- the state or quality of being sensual; fondness for or indulgence in sensual pleasures
- lasciviousness; lewdness
sensuality
n.
Preposition: of
- form: Her masterful command of precious metals is reflected in a refined sensuality of form.
Converse of object
- love: I love the sensuality you bring out in a woman.
- explore: They explore female sensuality, both in the nature of the forms themselves and in the way they feel when worn.
- represent: The High Priestess Reversed The Priestess reversed represents uncontrolled sensuality, conceit and a willingness to accept the superficial.
- enjoy: We use a primarily physical approach to enjoy the sensuality of language and the full-body experience of using our voices.
- ooze: She's a fine actress who oozes sensuality, but she's also a convincing cop's wife.
- evoke: A hand at the back of the head, such a similar gesture, can evoke the deliberate sensuality of lifting the hair.
Adjective modifier
- own: What Madonna and others of her ilk do arises from their own sensuality and is carried by their charisma.
- pure: You can almost taste the pure sensuality of colors!
- sheer: There's just no subsitute for the sheer sensuality of the direct experience.
- mere: Pleasure must be re-defined both politically and poetically: pleasure must be seen as more than mere sensuality.
- female: The whole film is a journey in which the woman like moving sculpture, summons up an area of female sensuality.
- natural: Cerruti 1881 Amber is a magic potion of natural sensuality.
Noun used with modifier
- surface: Löhr's work transports the viewer through the surface sensuality to a darker and more complex environment.
Hissensuality has all drifted intosexual vanity, delight for being the candletothemoths, with a dash of intellectual curiosity to give flavour to his tickled vanity His incompleteness as a thinker, his shallow and vulgar view of many human relationshipsöthe lack of a sterner kind of humour which would show him the dreariness of his farce and the total absence of proportion and inadequateness in some of his ideasöall these defects came largely from the flippant and worthless self- complacency brought about by the worship of rather second-rate women.
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