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
By November 6th, Venus slips into Scorpio and lights up your daily routine zone with an edge of mystery, sensuality, and craving.
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Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 2 Nov. 2025
For Trochopoulos, gravitating toward designs evocative of sensuality has always appealed to him.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
By contrast, Borghi limns a figure of comingled sensuality, threat and eventual poignance, without ever appearing to reach for effect.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
For Black women, that color has always carried a potent power that signals sensuality, seduction, and even softness.
—Essence, 21 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
Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 2 Nov. 2025
For Trochopoulos, gravitating toward designs evocative of sensuality has always appealed to him.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
By contrast, Borghi limns a figure of comingled sensuality, threat and eventual poignance, without ever appearing to reach for effect.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
For Black women, that color has always carried a potent power that signals sensuality, seduction, and even softness.
—Essence, 21 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sensuality
Noun
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Just 100 years after the country’s founding, the highest office of the land was rife with corruption and greed.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
6 Nov. 2025
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Our brains evolved to spot danger, not to manage portfolios, and the instincts that once kept us alive now push us towards panic and greed.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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But as Maud's God begins to talk back, and her desperate pleas for divine intervention send her into fits of orgasmic fervor and desperate carnality, Glass hints at the depths of mania powering the nurse's dedication.—
Dennis Perkins,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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And then there are the satiric quips, the candid carnality, and the love-it-or-leave-it depiction of life in Los Angeles.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
30 Oct. 2025
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Brat is, of course, the 2024 album by Charli XCX which celebrated hedonism, messiness and unapologetic partying.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Dec. 2025
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Koumba is a tricky character to realize, chiefly because postapocalyptic hedonism can easily slide into unsavoriness.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
5 Dec. 2025
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“Sensuality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sensuality. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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