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Sensual vs Sensualist - What's the difference?

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Sensual is a related term of sensualist.


As an adjective sensual

is inducing pleasurable and/or erotic sensations.

As a noun sensualist is

a person who believes in enjoying sensuality and the experience of pleasant sensations.

sensual

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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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    sensualist

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who believes in enjoying sensuality and the experience of pleasant sensations.
  • One who holds to the doctrine of sensualism.
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