Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sensuality"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sensuality \Sen`su*al"i*ty\, n. [CF. F. sensualit['e], 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.
--Shak.
They avoid dress, lest they should have affections
tainted by any sensuality. --Addison.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sensuality
n : desire for sensual pleasures [syn: {sensualness}, {sensualism}]
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