Англо-русский словарь - sensuality
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sensuality
noun чувственность
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n. gratification of the senses, self-indulgence. Etymology: ME f. F sensualit{eacute} f. LL sensualitas (as SENSUAL) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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see sensual SENSUOUS 1. Something that is sensuous gives pleasure to the mind or body through the senses. The film is ravishing to look at and boasts a sensuous musical score... ADJ • sensuously She lay in the deep bath for a long time, enjoying its sensuously perfumed water. ADV: ADV adj, ADV with v 2. Someone or something that is sensuous shows or suggests a great liking for sexual pleasure. ...his sensuous young mistress, Marie-Therese. = sensual ADJ • sensuously The nose was straight, the mouth sensuously wide and full. ADV: ADV adj, ADV with v ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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- early 14c., "the part of man that is concerned with the senses," from O.Fr. sensualitй, from L.L. sensualitatem (nom. sensualitas) "capacity for sensation," from L. sensualis "endowed with feeling, sensitive," from sensus "feeling" (see sense). Chiefly "animal instincts and appetites," hence "the lower nature regarded as a source of evil, lusts of the flesh" (1621). Sensual is attested from 1450. Sensuous coined 1641 (by Milton) to recover the original meaning "pertaining to the senses" and avoid the lascivious connotation of sensual, but by 1870 it had begun down the same path. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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