SENSUALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sensuality mean? 

• SENSUALITY (noun)
  The noun SENSUALITY has 1 sense:

1. desire for sensual pleasures

  Familiarity information: SENSUALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENSUALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Desire for sensual pleasures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

sensualism; sensuality; sensualness

Hypernyms ("sensuality" is a kind of...):

concupiscence; eros; physical attraction; sexual desire (a desire for sexual intimacy)

Derivation:

sensual (marked by the appetites and passions of the body)

 Context examples 

I made his honour my most humble acknowledgments for the good opinion he was pleased to conceive of me, but assured him at the same time, “that my birth was of the lower sort, having been born of plain honest parents, who were just able to give me a tolerable education; that nobility, among us, was altogether a different thing from the idea he had of it; that our young noblemen are bred from their childhood in idleness and luxury; that, as soon as years will permit, they consume their vigour, and contract odious diseases among lewd females; and when their fortunes are almost ruined, they marry some woman of mean birth, disagreeable person, and unsound constitution (merely for the sake of money), whom they hate and despise. That the productions of such marriages are generally scrofulous, rickety, or deformed children; by which means the family seldom continues above three generations, unless the wife takes care to provide a healthy father, among her neighbours or domestics, in order to improve and continue the breed. That a weak diseased body, a meagre countenance, and sallow complexion, are the true marks of noble blood; and a healthy robust appearance is so disgraceful in a man of quality, that the world concludes his real father to have been a groom or a coachman. The imperfections of his mind run parallel with those of his body, being a composition of spleen, dullness, ignorance, caprice, sensuality, and pride.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)