sensuous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: sen=su=ous

CIDE DICTIONARY

sensuous, a. 

•  Of or pertaining to the senses, or sensible objects; addressing the senses; suggesting pictures or images of sense.  [1913 Webster]

  "To this poetry would be made precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate."  [1913 Webster]
•  Highly susceptible to influence through the senses.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sensuous, adj. of or derived from or affecting the senses, esp. aesthetically rather than sensually.

Derivative

sensuously adv. sensuousness n.

Etymology

L sensus sense

THESAURUS

sensuous

Dionysian, appealing, attractive, bacchic, bewitching, captivating, charming, delightful, dionysiac, enchanting, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, entrancing, epicurean, exquisite, fascinating, fetching, fleshy, heart-robbing, hedonistic, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, lovely, luscious, lush, luxurious, pleasures, prepossessing, ravishing, receptive, rich, sensatory, sensimotor, sensitive, sensorial, sensorimotor, sensory, sensual, sumptuous, sybaritic, taking, tantalizing, tempting, thrilling, titillative, voluptuous, winning, winsome, witching

ROGET THESAURUS

sensuous

Feeling

N feeling, suffering, endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance, experience, response, sympathy, impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense, warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence, fervor, fervency, heartiness, cordiality, earnestness, eagerness, empressement, gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore, fanaticism, excitation of feeling, fullness of the heart, passion, ecstasy, blush, suffusion, flush, hectic, tingling, thrill, turn, shock, agitation, quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor, throb, throbbing, pulsation, palpitation, panting, trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment, state of excitement, feeling, sentient, sensuous, sensorial, sensory, emotive, emotional, of feeling, with feeling, warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive, keen, keen as a razor, trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic, impressive, deep, profound, indelible, deep felt, home felt, heartfelt, swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic, earnest, wistful, eager, breathless, fervent, fervid, gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming, boiling over, pervading, penetrating, absorbing, rabid, raving, feverish, fanatical, hysterical, impetuous, impressed with, moved with, touched with, affected with, penetrated with, seized with, imbued with, devoured by, wrought up, struck all of a heap, rapt, in a quiver, enraptured, heart and soul, from the bottom of one's heart, ab imo pectore, at heart, con amore, heartily, devoutly, over head and ears, head over heels, the heart big, the heart full, the heart swelling, the heart beating, the heart pulsating, the heart throbbing, the heart thumping, the heart beating high, the heart melting, the heart overflowing, the heart bursting, the heart breaking, the heart goes out, a heart as big as all outdoors (sympathy).

Physical Sensibility

N physical sensibility, sensibility, sensitiveness, physical sensibility, feeling, impressibility, perceptivity, aesthetics, moral sensibility, sensation, impression, consciousness, external senses, sensible, sensitive, sensuous, aesthetic, perceptive, sentient, conscious, acute, sharp, keen, vivid, lively, impressive, thin-skinned, to the quick, the touch'd needle trembles to the pole.