sensuality

[ sen-shoo-al-i-tee ]

/ ˌsɛn ʃuˈæl ɪ ti /

sensual nature: the sensuality of Keats's poetry.

unrestrained indulgence in sensual pleasures.

lewdness; unchastity.

Sometimes sen·su·al·ness [sen-shoo-uh l-nis] /ˈsɛn ʃu əl nɪs/.

Origin of sensuality

1300–50; Middle English sensualite < Old French < Late Latin sēnsuālitās. See sensual, -ity

an·ti·sen·su·al·i·ty, noun, plural an·ti·sen·su·al·i·ties, adjective hy·per·sen·su·al·i·ty, noun non·sen·su·al·i·ty, noun

You say that the sensualities of princes are only of 'anecdotal interest.'

The Catholic World, Vol. X, October 1869 |Various
He might have said that as we often eat or drink or smoke for pleasure, so we may indulge in other sensualities.

Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) |Frank Harris
There were the sensualities of the gourmet for his body, and there ended his human nature, as it seemed to me.

Uncle Silas |J. S. LeFanu
It was these sensualities practised in the name of religion which caused the iniquity of the Canaanites to become full.

Patriarchal Palestine |Archibald Henry Sayce

But man, immersed in the flux of sensualities, can never fully attain this knowledge of God, the object of all rational inquiry.

Beacon Lights of History, Volume I |John Lord

sensuality

/ (ˌsɛnsjʊˈælɪtɪ) /

the quality or state of being sensual

excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures

sensualist (ˈsɛnsjʊəlɪst), noun