bodily pleasure
Carnal delight experienced
Bodily pleasure is physical enjoyment or gratification experienced through the senses—the satisfaction of eating, the comfort of warmth, the release of orgasm.
The phrase often appears in philosophical or religious contexts distinguishing physical from spiritual or intellectual pleasures: He renounced bodily pleasure for a life of contemplation.
It can carry undertones of indulgence or sin, though the pleasures themselves are morally neutral.
- sensualOf bodily pleasure
- ecstasyOverwhelming intense delight
- blissPerfect, serene felicity
- indulgenceYielding to desire
- carnalRelating to physical urges
skin on skin · hedonism · orgasm · massage · warmth · touch · skin · appetite · satiation · arousal · tingling · relaxation · creature comforts · euphoria · comfort · caress · intoxication · savoring
- pleasureenjoyment, delight, gratification, contentment, satisfaction
- Cyrenaicshedonism, immediate gratification
- indulgenceindulgence, indulge, indulgent, self-indulgent, overindulgence
- well-beingwell-being, happiness, wellbeing, wellness, contentment
- erotic poetryerotic poetry, love poetry, love poems, love sonnets, Sappho
- EpicureanismEpicurus, ataraxia, Lucretius, tranquility, friendship
bodily pleasurephysical pain
bodily pleasureasceticism
Severe self-denial practice
self-denial · abstinence · self-mortification · austerity · renunciation
body, bodies, bodied, bodily, bodyguard, somebody, anybody, nobody, everybody