Sensuous Senses Pleasure Gratification Sensual Implies Indulgence Luxurious

sen·su·ous
\\ˈsen(t)-sh(ə-)wəs\\ adjective1.
  a. of or relating to the senses or sensible objects
  b. producing or characterized by gratification of the senses : having strong sensory appeal
      sensuous pleasure
2. characterized by sense impressions or imagery aimed at the senses
    sensuous verse
3. highly susceptible to influence through the senses
• sen·su·os·i·ty \\ˌsen(t)-shə-ˈwä-sə-tē\\ noun
• sen·su·ous·ly \\ˈsen(t)-shə-wəs-lē\\ adverb
• sen·su·ous·ness noun
Synonyms.
  , , , mean relating to or providing pleasure through gratification of the senses. implies gratification of the senses for the sake of aesthetic pleasure
      the sensuous delights of great music
   tends to imply the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of the physical appetites as ends in themselves
      a life devoted to sensual pleasures
   suggests the indulgence of sensuous pleasure inducing bodily ease and languor
      a luxurious hotel
   implies more strongly an abandonment especially to sensual pleasure
      a voluptuous feast

sensuous
  1641, "pertaining to the senses" coined (from L. sensus) by Milton to recover the original meaning of sensual (q.v.) and avoid the lascivious connotation that the older word had acquired by Milton's day, but by 1870 sensuous, too, had begun down the same path. Rare before Coleridge popularized it (1814).

sensuous
sen·su·ous / 5senFuEs / adjective1. giving pleasure to your senses
   愉悦感官的:
   sensuous music
   悦耳的音乐
   I'm drawn to the poetic, sensuous qualities of her paintings.
   我喜欢她的画中那种充满诗意、赏心悦目的特性。
2. suggesting an interest in sexual pleasure
   肉感的；性感的:
   his full sensuous lips
   他的丰满性感的嘴唇
• sen·su·ous·ly adv.
• sen·su·ous·ness noun [U]

sen·su·ous
\ˈsenchəwəs\ adjective
Etymology: Latin sensus + English -ous
1. : of or relating to the senses or sensible objects : addressing the senses : suggesting pictures or images of sense
 < to this poetry would be made precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate — John Milton >
2. : characterized by sense impressions or imagery addressing the senses
 < sensuous description >
 < a purely sensuous satisfaction >
3. : producing an agreeable effect on the senses : conducive to physical comfort or content
 < mild sensuous breezes >
4. : highly susceptible to influence through the senses
Synonyms:
 , , , , , and can mean, in common, having to do with or providing gratification of the senses. and , though interchangeable in applying to things of the senses as opposed to spirit or intellect, are often used to carry a distinction: in such case usually implies gratification in the sense of indulgence of appetite
  < acute sensitivity to the sensual and intellectual pleasures that make life so abundantly worth living — Anthony West >
  < the richer tobacco enthusiasts want not merely the sensual pleasure their pipe brings — Irish Digest >
  < a sensual person given to lying on soft couches and overeating >
  can imply less an indulgence of appetite than an aesthetic gratification or delight as in beauty of color, sound, or artistic form and usually carries a weaker overtone of carnality than does
  < some philosophers insist that most of the arts are sensuous and hence that beauty is sensuous, but W. T. Stace maintains that … beauty must be admitted to display itself in internal percepts — D.H.Rankin >
  < a sensuous love of food and drink and gaiety — William Soskin >
  < the cat … lolling before the fire, stretched in a paroxysm of sensuous happiness upon the hearth rug — F.A.Swinnerton >
  < poetry took on a new and bizarre intricacy of sensuous decoration and symbolic metaphor — Douglas Bush >
  < he eyed the fresh linen laid upon a yellow-painted chair with sensuous delight — Elinor Wylie >
  implies indulgence in or provision of either sensual or sensuous pleasures especially of a kind inducing a pleasant languor, a delightful ease especially of body, or a grateful peace of mind
  < in her luxurious bed, beneath the satin coverlet, which was scented with lavender — Ellen Glasgow >
  < sat down to a long, luxurious smoke — Rudyard Kipling >
  < turned his head upon the high cushioned back of his chair and closed his eyes for one luxurious instant — Elinor Wylie >
  implies a stronger abandonment to sense pleasure especially for its own sake than does
  < the core of [his] genius is voluptuous, surcharged with indolence and passion — Cyril Connolly >
  < a sullen voluptuous mouth — Edmund Wilson >
  < Cleopatra — fierce, voluptuous, passionate, tender, wicked, terrible, and full of poisonous and rapturous enchantment — Nathaniel Hawthorne >
  implies luxuriousness and voluptuousness of an extreme, often overrefined sort and especially indulgence in rare and choice foods and in surroundings calculated to provide a maximum of bodily gratification
  < a life of pleasure, folly, misfortune, vice, and sybaritic elegance — Philip Sherrard >
  < imagining the feel of the long silky fleece against bare toes makes one shiver with sybaritic pleasure — New Yorker >
  < a sybaritic banquet of seven courses, each with its own wine or liqueur >
  in this context can commonly imply sensuality or voluptuousness or, when nearer to an original sense, a sensuous, often fastidious delight in refined physical pleasures, often of eating or drinking but sometimes in intellectual pleasures
  < out-of-season delicacies, wines of rare vintage, epicurean specialties of a ten-thousand-dollar-a-year chef — J.J.Floherty >

  < drinking his tea with epicurean satisfaction — J.C.Powys >