英和和英

語源

From Late Latin sensualis (“endowed with feeling, sensual”), from Latin sensus (“feeling, sense”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈsɛnsjuːəl/, /ˈsɛnʃuːəl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈsɛn.ʃu.əl/

形容詞

sensual (comparative more sensual, superlative most sensual)

1. Inducing pleasurable or erotic sensations.

   Synonyms: sexy, voluptuous

   That massage was a very sensual experience!

2. Of or pertaining to the physical senses; sensory.

   Plato believed that this sensual world in which we live is inferior to the heavenly realm.

3. Provoking or exciting a strong response in the senses.

派生語

関連する語

• sense
• sensible
• sensuous

Further reading

• “sensual”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sensual”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “sensual”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• unseals