as in greed
excessive pursuit of fleshly pleasures
some readers objected to the novel's graphic depiction of sensuality
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Recent Examples of sensuality
The dress included a thigh-high slit for further sensuality.
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Julia Teti, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025
For Black women, that color has always carried a potent power that signals sensuality, seduction, and even softness.
—Essence, 21 Oct. 2025
With Mars also in Scorpio, your sensuality is magnetized, but so is your creativity.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 19 Oct. 2025
But ideas, too, carry passion, sensuality, and even body memory; a tweed untransfigured by ideas of desire is just a tweed.
—Nathan Heller, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
Made as Brazil’s dictatorship was losing its grip, these films confronted repression indirectly, turning sensuality into an act of defiance.
—Lise Pedersen, Variety, 12 Oct. 2025
The fabric glides across your skin with a soft sensuality, enveloping you in a whisper of luxury.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 15 Sep. 2025
Julia Teti, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025
For Black women, that color has always carried a potent power that signals sensuality, seduction, and even softness.
—Essence, 21 Oct. 2025
With Mars also in Scorpio, your sensuality is magnetized, but so is your creativity.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 19 Oct. 2025
But ideas, too, carry passion, sensuality, and even body memory; a tweed untransfigured by ideas of desire is just a tweed.
—Nathan Heller, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
Made as Brazil’s dictatorship was losing its grip, these films confronted repression indirectly, turning sensuality into an act of defiance.
—Lise Pedersen, Variety, 12 Oct. 2025
The fabric glides across your skin with a soft sensuality, enveloping you in a whisper of luxury.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sensuality
Noun
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There’s no tragic backstory here, no traumatic childhood event that turned Murdaugh into a killer, no motivators past greed.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
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This specific quiet theater of greed, luck, and deceit is likely over.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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Here, Stamp is pitted against a smarmy California counterpart played by another counterculture screen legend — Peter Fonda, of Easy Rider fame — and both men show how much the optimistic hedonism of the ’60s has soured.—
Christina Newland,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
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Dwarfing like a royal Turkish palace along the glittering shores of Belek—Regnum The Crown is a utopia of hedonism and millennial chic.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Sensuality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sensuality. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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