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Sensuous vs Sentimental - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between sensuous and sentimental

is that sensuous is appealing to the senses, or to sensual gratification while sentimental is characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion.

sensuous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Appealing to the senses, or to sensual gratification.
  • (not comparable) Of or relating to the senses; sensory.

    • Related terms

    * sense * sensible * sensual * sensuousness * supersensuous

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    sentimental

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion
  • derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment
  • romantic

    • Derived terms

    * sentimentalism * sentimentality * sentimentally

    Quotations

    * 1885 : , *: Are you in sentimental mood? *: I'll sigh with you. * 1944 : , *: Gonna take a Sentimental Journey, *: Gonna set my heart at ease. *: Gonna make a Sentimental Journey, *: to renew old memories.

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