sensual

sensual
adj.
sensual.
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sensual
► adjetivo
1 (de los sentidos) sensuous, sensual
2 (del sexo) sensual
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ADJ sensual, sensuous
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adjetivo <boca/cuerpo> sensual, sensuous; <placeres/gesto> sensual; <descripción> sensuous
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= sensual, sensuous, luscious, slinky [slinkier -comp., slinkiest -sup.].
Ex. Children experience so much that is new and unknown to them every day -- a flood tide of sensual emotions, events, ideas, data of all kinds.
Ex. Good literature insists on 'the mass and majesty' of the world -- on its concreteness and sensuous reality, and on its meanings beyond 'thisness'.
Ex. This volume is in fact three books shuffled together under one luscious cover, unfurling as a fantasia on technique that explores, among other things, Mau's riffs on modernism.
Ex. She has an easy grace about her, a slinky sway to her stride that teasingly invites contact and beckons lecherous admiration.
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adjetivo <boca/cuerpo> sensual, sensuous; <placeres/gesto> sensual; <descripción> sensuous
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= sensual, sensuous, luscious, slinky [slinkier -comp., slinkiest -sup.].

Ex: Children experience so much that is new and unknown to them every day -- a flood tide of sensual emotions, events, ideas, data of all kinds.

Ex: Good literature insists on 'the mass and majesty' of the world -- on its concreteness and sensuous reality, and on its meanings beyond 'thisness'.
Ex: This volume is in fact three books shuffled together under one luscious cover, unfurling as a fantasia on technique that explores, among other things, Mau's riffs on modernism.
Ex: She has an easy grace about her, a slinky sway to her stride that teasingly invites contact and beckons lecherous admiration.

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sensual
adjective
‹boca/cuerpo› sensual, sensuous; ‹placeres/gesto› sensual; ‹descripción› sensuous
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sensual adjetivo ‹boca/cuerpo› sensual, sensuous;
‹placeres/gesto› sensual;
‹descripción› sensuous
sensual adjetivo sensual
'sensual' also found in these entries:
English:
sensual
- sensuous
- sultry
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sensual adj
sensual
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sensual
adj sensual
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sensual adj
: sensual, sensuous
♦ sensualmente adv

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