sensuality

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
sensuality
    n 1: desire for sensual pleasures [syn: {sensuality},
         {sensualness}, {sensualism}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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         Those pampered animals
         That rage in savage sensuality.          --Shak.
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         They avoid dress, lest they should have affections
         tainted by any sensuality.               --Addison.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "sensuality":
      animality, bawdiness, carnality, clitoromania, coldness,
      concupiscence, dirtiness, eroticism, eroticomania, erotomania,
      flesh, fleshliness, frigidity, furor uterinus, goatishness,
      gynecomania, horniness, hysteromania, impotence, lasciviousness,
      lecherousness, lechery, lewdness, libidinousness, libido,
      lickerishness, love, lovemaking, lubriciousness, lubricity, lust,
      lustfulness, marriage, nymphomania, obscenity, potency, prurience,
      pruriency, randiness, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis,
      satyrism, sex drive, sexiness, sexual instinct, sexual urge,
      sexualism, sexuality, uteromania, voluptuousness
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