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SENSUOUSLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sensuously mean?
• SENSUOUSLY (adverb)
The adverb SENSUOUSLY has 1 sense:
1. with aesthetic gratification or delight
Familiarity information: SENSUOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
With aesthetic gratification or delight
Context example:
sensuously delighting in the wine and food
Pertainym:
sensuous (taking delight in beauty)
Context examples
She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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