as in hedonist
a person whose life is devoted to luxury and sensual pleasures
a sumptuous resort that will satisfy even the most demanding sensualists
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Recent Examples of sensualist
Things don’t go well, resulting in a Lord of the Flies–esque battle between, among others, Jude Law’s idealist and Ana de Armas’s shameless sensualist.
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Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
The film would eventually gross more than $16 million worldwide while securing Wong’s reputation as one of cinema’s great sensualists.
—Gregg Kilday, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
The film would eventually gross more than $16 million worldwide while securing Wong’s reputation as one of cinema’s great sensualists.
—Gregg Kilday, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sensualist
Noun
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All of the group’s hotels appeal to wellbeing-loving hedonists with a conscience—regular guests are predominantly female (around 60%).—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Mar. 2026
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The sequel strips Grace of what made her special and merely pays lip service to the first one’s worldview, representing the antagonists as generically incompetent hedonists.—
Michael Ordoña,
San Francisco Chronicle,
18 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Nothing important happens in this movie, which the Italian voluptuary Luca Guadagnino directed and yet, being as manically alive as Mr. Fiennes is here has to count for something.—
WESLEY MORRIS,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2017
Noun
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The series will tell the story of how a young woman, Silvia, who was working at the Munich Olympics, met Carl Gustaf, the Crown Prince of Sweden, a playboy and the guest of honor at the Games.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
24 Mar. 2026
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In one of the musical’s many stomach-turning late developments, its resident rake, a bisexual playboy played by Claybourne Elder (doing better after his carriage accident), sets his sights on a 14-year-old girl who has slipped into the party from Poughkeepsie (Maya Rowe) and tries to rape her.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Higher volumes of sybarites are also tasking luxury operators with making crowd-free vacation dreams come true.—
Lindsay Cohn,
Robb Report,
20 May 2025
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What unites these contemporary sybarites with their stylish forebears is a powerful longing for freedom.—
Lynn Yaeger,
Vogue,
16 May 2025
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“Sensualist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sensualist. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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