SENSUALIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sensualist mean? 

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

1. a person who enjoys sensuality

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENSUALIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who enjoys sensuality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sensualist"):

bisexual; bisexual person (a person who is sexually attracted to both sexes)

cocksucker (a person who performs fellatio)

bon vivant; epicure; epicurean; foodie; gastronome; gourmet (a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink))

erotic (an erotic person)

hedonist; pagan; pleasure seeker (someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures)

sybarite; voluptuary (a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses)

wanton (lewd or lascivious woman)

Derivation:

sensualism (desire for sensual pleasures)

 Context examples 

With the brow of a philosopher above and the jaw of a sensualist below, the man must have started with great capacities for good or for evil.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Below, was the heavy jowl of the sensualist curving in a broad crease over his cravat.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am not absolutely such a fool and sensualist as to regret the absence of a carpet, a sofa, and silver plate; besides, five weeks ago I had nothing—I was an outcast, a beggar, a vagrant; now I have acquaintance, a home, a business.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)