sensual vs sensuous
Definitions
adjective
- sexually exciting or gratifying
- marked by the appetites and passions of the body
Examples
And in a way I want to make my language as mimetic as possible, as sensual as possible, so that you can feel the treetops, taste the lamb chump chops, and hear the wind and the sound of the surf beating on the beach.
Sensual and materialistic, they want all the power, comfort and control they can get out of life.
Her later sensual works contrast starkly with the harsh earlier paintings.
Definitions
adjective
- taking delight in beauty
Examples
This is a world of fabulous richness and sensuous pleasure.
We do not think that something is beautiful merely to me, in the way that we might say that some things just happen to give me sensuous pleasure.
One step advanced beyond this, Jerry's uttermost, the folk of Somo, from the contemplation of death, had achieved concepts of the spirits of the dead still living in immaterial and supersensuous realms.
