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Sensual vs Rakish - What's the difference?

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Sensual is a related term of rakish.


As adjectives the difference between sensual and rakish

is that sensual is inducing pleasurable and/or erotic sensations while rakish is dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance.

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.

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    rakish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance.
  • ... the rakish Dennis Quaid, a Houston native who is moving to Texas in a couple of years and wants it to become "the new Hollywood." (Houston Chronicle, 6/8/2007)
  • (dated) like a rake; dissolute; profligate
  • * Macaulay
  • The arduous task of converting a rakish lover.

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