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Webster 1913 Edition


Sensuality

Senˊsu-al′i-ty

,
Noun.
[CF. F.
sensualité
, L.
sensualitas
sensibility, capacity for sensation.]
The quality or state of being sensual; devotedness to the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures; luxuriousness; voluptuousness; lewdness.
Those pampered animals
That rage in savage
sensuality
.
Shakespeare
They avoid dress, lest they should have affections tainted by any
sensuality
.
Addison.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sensuality

SENSUAL'ITY

,
Noun.
Devotedness o the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures.
Those pamper'd animals
That rage in savage sensuality. Shak.
They avoid dress, lest they should have affections tainted by any sensuality. Addison.