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Sensual vs Venereal - What's the difference?

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Sensual is a related term of venereal.


As adjectives the difference between sensual and venereal

is that sensual is inducing pleasurable and/or erotic sensations while venereal is sexually transmitted.

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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    venereal

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • sexually transmitted.
  • of or relating to sexual intercourse, lust, or the genitals.
  • * Milton
  • Into the snare I fell / Of fair, fallacious looks, venereal trains, / Softened with pleasure and voluptuous life.
  • Exciting sexual desire; aphrodisiac.
  • Adapted to the cure of venereal diseases.
  • a venereal medicine
  • (obsolete) of or relating to copper (formerly called Venus by alchemists).
  • Derived terms

    * dermatovenereal * venereal disease * venereally * venerology

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