sensuality
Delight in touch
Sensuality is the quality of being devoted to or absorbed in physical pleasures—particularly those involving the senses of touch, taste, and smell.
It suggests indulgence in bodily experience: the sensuality of silk against skin, a meal prepared with obvious sensuality.
The word often carries erotic undertones, implying pleasure that borders on or includes the sexual, though it need not: a warm bath or rich dessert can be enjoyed with sensuality.
Distinguished from spirituality, which elevates mind over body.
Intense wanting
- passionIntense emotional drive
- lustIntense carnal appetite
- carnalityPursuit of bodily pleasures
- seductivenessPower to entice
voluptuousness · sultriness · provocativeness · libido · arousal · carnal · lustfulness · concupiscence
Intense wanting
- stimulationEvoking a response
- excitementState of eager enthusiasm
- allureAttractive, tempting quality
- seductionEnticing someone romantically
temptation · attraction · titillation · provocation · fascination · enchantment · enticement · captivation
State of proximity
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
- warmthHeat you feel
- affectionWarm emotional attachment
- connectionA joining or relation
touch · embrace · caress · bonding · togetherness · fondness · nurturing · devotion
Happy, satisfied feeling
- decadenceMoral decline through excess
- hedonismPursuit of gratification
- opulenceShowy, abundant prosperity
- gourmetConnoisseur of fine cuisine
sumptuous · feasting · extravagance · savor · pampering · gratification · epicurean · richness
Thick-pile textile
- silkFine woven insect fiber
- cashmereFine goat-derived textile
- satinGlossy-surfaced woven cloth
- furAnimal body hair
smooth · soft · supple · plush · linen · skin · tactile · silken
Aesthetic excellence
- eleganceRefined, graceful quality
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- refinementElegance of manner
- curvesBends in a line
form · contour · sculpture · flowing · draping · candlelight · atmosphere · ambiance
desire
Intense wanting
seductiveness · voluptuousness · sultriness · provocativeness · libido · arousal · carnal · lustfulness · concupiscence · flesh
desire
Intense wanting
- stimulationEvoking a response
- excitementState of eager enthusiasm
- allureAttractive, tempting quality
seduction · temptation · attraction · titillation · provocation · fascination · enchantment · enticement · captivation · flirtation
closeness
State of proximity
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
- warmthHeat you feel
- affectionWarm emotional attachment
connection · touch · embrace · caress · bonding · togetherness · fondness · nurturing · devotion · vulnerability
pleasure
Happy, satisfied feeling
- decadenceMoral decline through excess
- hedonismPursuit of gratification
- opulenceShowy, abundant prosperity
gourmet · sumptuous · feasting · extravagance · savor · pampering · gratification · epicurean · richness · gourmand
velvet
Thick-pile textile
fur · smooth · soft · supple · plush · linen · skin · tactile · silken · velvety
beauty
Aesthetic excellence
- eleganceRefined, graceful quality
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- refinementElegance of manner
curves · form · contour · sculpture · flowing · draping · candlelight · atmosphere · ambiance · dim
- sexualitysexual orientation, sexual behavior, erotica, sexual identity, bisexual
- decadencedecadence, decay, lavishness, aestheticism, dandyism
- erotic poetryerotic poetry, love poetry, love poems, love sonnets, Sappho
- intimacykiss, hug, embrace, closeness, snuggling
- Kama Sutrapositions, lovemaking, sexual union, pleasure
- lustlust, lustfulness, carnality, concupiscence, libido
sensualityasceticism
Severe self-denial practice
abstinence · self-denial · abstemiousness · austerity · temperance
sensualityspirituality
Connection to the sacred
otherworldliness · transcendence · piety · monasticism · ethereality
sensualityPuritanism
Protestant reform movement
prudishness · decency · propriety · primness · Victorian morality