sensual pleasure
Gratification of senses
Sensual pleasure is enjoyment derived from the physical senses—taste, touch, smell, sight, and sound.
The phrase often carries erotic undertones but encompasses any bodily gratification: the sensual pleasure of a hot bath, She savored the sensual pleasure of chocolate melting on her tongue.
Philosophical and religious traditions sometimes contrast sensual pleasure with spiritual or intellectual satisfaction.
- indulgentToo willing to yield
- hedonismPursuit of gratification
- voluptuousSensually full-bodied
- decadentSelf-indulgent, often corruptly
- creature comfortsPhysical pleasures, everyday luxuries
carnal · erotic · bliss · ecstasy · luxurious · silken · velvet · arousal · intoxicating · rapture · desire · luscious · savoring · forbidden fruit · sumptuous · gratification · body and soul · sultry
- pleasureenjoyment, delight, gratification, contentment, satisfaction
- indulgenceindulgence, indulge, indulgent, self-indulgent, overindulgence
- vicevice, debauchery, prostitution, depravity, immorality
sensual pleasuremental stimulation
Engagement of cognitive faculties
spiritual fulfillment · abstract thought · philosophical reflection
sensual pleasurephysical pain
sensual pleasureasceticism
Severe self-denial practice
self-denial · abstinence · austerity · self-mortification · renunciation
sensual, sensually, sensuality, sensualist, sensualism, sensuous, sensuously, sensuousness, sense