sensuous (sensuus)

[L. sens us, sense, + -ous.] 1. Of, pertaining to, derived from, or ministering to the senses; connected with sensible objects: as, sensuous pleasures. To which [logic] poetry would be made subsequent, or, indeed, rather precedent, as being le subtile and fine, but more simple, sensuous , and pa ionate. Milton , Education. To expre in one word all that appertains to the perception, considered as pa ive and merely recipient, I have adopted from our elder cla ics the word sensuous . Cole ridge. The agreeable and disagreeable feelings which come through sensations of smell, taste, and touch are for the most part sensuous rather than strictly æsthetic. G. T. Ladd , Physiol. Psychology, p. 521. 2. Readily affected through the senses; alive to the pleasure to be received through the senses. Too soft and sensuous by nature to be exhilarated by the conflict of modern opinions, he [Keats] found at once food for his love of beauty and an opiate for his despondency in the remote tales of Greek mythology. Quarterly Rev. Sensuous cognition, cognition through the senses.Sensuous indistinctne . See indistinctne , 2. = Syn. 1. Carnal , etc. See sensual . sensuously (sen'sū-us-li), adv . In a sensuous manner. Cole ridge.