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Alluring vs Sensual - What's the difference?

alluring | sensual |

Sensual is a synonym of alluring.



As adjectives the difference between alluring and sensual

is that alluring is having the power to allure while sensual is inducing pleasurable and/or erotic sensations.

As a verb alluring

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun alluring

is the action of the verb allure.

alluring

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb allure .

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the power to allure.
  • *
    • Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.

    sensual

    English

    Alternative forms

    * sensuall (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inducing pleasurable and/or erotic sensations.
    • That massage was a very sensual experience!
  • (not comparable) Of or pertaining to the physical senses; sensory.
    • Plato believed that this sensual world in which we live is inferior to the heavenly realm.

    Related terms

    * sense * sensible * sensuous * supersensual

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