sensuality

English

Etymology

sensual +‎ -ity, from Middle French sensualité, from Latin sensualitas (“sensibility, capacity for sensation”).

Noun

sensuality (countable and uncountable, plural sensualities)

1. (uncountable) The state of being sensual or sensuous.
2. (countable) A preoccupation with sensual pleasure.

Antonyms

• asceticism

Translations

state of being sensual, sensuous

• Bulgarian: сладострастие (bg) n (sladostrastie)
• Catalan: sensualitat f
• Czech: smyslnost f
• Dutch: zinnelijkheid (nl) f
• Finnish: aistillisuus (fi)
• French: sensualité (fr) f
• German: Sinnlichkeit (de) f
• Portuguese: sensualidade (pt) f
• Romanian: senzualitate (ro) f
• Russian: чувственность (ru) f (čuvstvennostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: senzuálnōst (sh) f, čúlnōst (sh) f, pȕtenōst (sh) f
• Spanish: sensualidad (es) f

References

• “sensuality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.