Earthy vs Sensual - What's the difference?
earthy | sensual |
Resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth).
Down to earth, un-artificed, natural.
Like or resembling the earth or of the earth.
Covered with earth (mud, dirt).
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
Inducing pleasurable and/or erotic sensations.
(not comparable) Of or pertaining to the physical senses; sensory.
As adjectives the difference between earthy and sensual
is that earthy is resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth) while sensual is inducing pleasurable and/or erotic sensations.earthy
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Adjective
(er)- The earthy smell of fresh turned loam told me the farmer had started plowing this morning, the definitive sign of spring for me.
- She was an earthy soul, the salt of the earth as they say of such rural folk, untarnished by false civilization.
- He was wet through with the dew and quite earthy from diving into the burrows the Boy had made for him in the flower bed, and Nana grumbled as she rubbed him off with a corner of her apron.
Anagrams
*sensual
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Alternative forms
* sensuall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- That massage was a very sensual experience!
- Plato believed that this sensual world in which we live is inferior to the heavenly realm.
