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单词 sensuous
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sensuousadj.n.

Brit. /ˈsɛnsjʊəs/, /ˈsɛnʃʊəs/, U.S. /ˈsɛn(t)ʃəwəs/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin sensus , -ous suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin sensus sense n. + -ous suffix.Apparently coined by Milton in an attempt to avoid the sexual connotations of sensual adj., and adopted from him by Coleridge; see also note at sense A. 2. In practice there has been considerable semantic overlap between the two words since the mid 19th cent.
A. adj.
1.
a. Of, relating to, or concerned with the senses or sensation; derived from or perceived by the senses.See note in etymology. The absence of evidence for the word from the 17th and 18th centuries, other than Milton's (and Johnson's misapprehension of his use: see note at sense A. 2), strongly suggests that Coleridge's assertion of more widespread usage in earlier writers is incorrect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [adjective] > of or relating to the senses
sensuous1641
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 3 The Soule..finding the ease she had from her visible, and sensuous collegue the body in performance of Religious duties..shifted off from her selfe, the labour of high soaring any more.
1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 6 To which Poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being lesse suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous and passionate.
1814 S. T. Coleridge Princ. Genial Crit. iii, in Farley's Bristol Jrnl. 27 Aug. Thus to express in one word what belongs to the senses, or the recipient and more passive faculty of the soul, I have re-introduced the word, sensuous, used among many others of our elder writers by Milton.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. v. 99 Plato adopted it [sc. Ιδεα] as a technical term, and as the antithesis to Ειδωλα, or sensuous images.
1843 R. W. Emerson Transcendentalist in Dial Jan. 298 The idealist..does not deny the sensuous fact:..but he will not see that alone.
1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 154 The external or sensuous qualities of art.
1904 G. S. Hall Adolescence II. xii. 179 Culture developed through the four stages of manism, when each [sc. the moon, sun, planets, etc.] was regarded as only the sensuous object it seemed, [etc.].
1977 Ballet Rev. 6 ii. 74 The idealists and many of the rationalists hold that the sensuous body is reducible to, or generated by, or somehow absorbed in, the functioning of mind.
2015 J. S. Hendrix Unconscious Thought in Philos. & Psychoanal. v. 158 Abbildung is direct image formation, the power to depict a sensuous object, or reproduce it as phenomenon.
b. Of a belief, concept, etc.: relating to or based on what is perceptible by the senses; material. Also: (of language or its components) relating to physical objects.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > [adjective] > based on sensation
sensuous1853
the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > meaning or signification > [adjective] > relating to sensible objects
sensuous1853
1853 Evangelical Mag. Jan. 27/2 The views of Kant have an apparent identity with the sensuous theory.
1870 F. W. Farrar Families of Speech iv. 152 Languages very crude and sensuous in their character.
1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals 132 The familiar and sensuous theology of Homer.
1906 Reader Sept. 450/2 The sensuous empiricism of Locke and the materialistic Deism of the French school.
1976 T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideol. iv. 147 Eliot is able to combine an idealist totality with the sensuous empiricism which is its other aspect.
2012 Jrnl. Mod. Lit. 36 i. 55 Reaching the physical world beyond the book through the sensuous basis of language.
2. Probably: full of tender or passionate feelings. Obsolete. rare.Johnson's definition in quot. 1755 is based on a misapprehension of quot. 1644 at sense A. 1a. Lady Morgan's use of the word (four times in all) in her popular novel Woman: or Ida of Athens (see quots. 18091, 18092) is most likely based on Johnson, and may have contributed to the word's revival.
ΚΠ
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Sensuous, tender; pathetick; full of passion.]
1809 Lady Morgan Woman I. 126 In the pleasure-breathing form of the elegant and sensuous greek [sic] he saw nothing but incitement, and from her yielding, tender mind he expected nothing but compliance.
1809 Lady Morgan Woman IV. 284 The dark and languid eyes, humid and bright in their bewitching softness, were fastened on the earth, timidity and love mingling their sensurous [sic] expressions, chased from the beamy countenance each trace of pride and suffering.
3.
a. Of pleasure, enjoyment, etc.: received through the senses.In later use often coloured by sense A. 3b, with the implication of indulging in passive enjoyment.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > [adjective] > received through the senses (of pleasure)
sensualc1443
sensuous1821
1821 C. Lloyd Desultory Thoughts London 124 So ne'er were sensuous pleasures fairly got, 'Till held unconsciously as though held not.
1877 W. Black Green Pastures (1878) xxxvii. 295 It was something to gaze on with a placid and sensuous satisfaction.
1909 E. R. Tennant in Expositor Aug. 123 That sensuous pleasure is a possibility is..a thing to give God thanks for.
1953 S. Plath Jrnl. 24 Jan. (2000) 164 And now the sensuous delight of sitting warm and clear-eyed at my desk, looking out of the window into the thick, steamy, rain-lashed dripping air, and hearing the cars slithering by.
2014 J. O. Young Critique Pure Music v. 158 Many listeners report receiving sensuous pleasure from music.
b. Attractive or gratifying to the senses; physically pleasurable.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > [adjective] > pleasing to the senses > of surroundings or climate
delicate1553
sensuous1858
snug1888
1858 Ballou's Monthly Mag. Apr. 378/2 Tropic gardens flung out their wealth of fragrance on the soft, sensuous air.
1878 J. Miller Songs Italy 51 How sensuous the night! how soft was the sound Of her voice on the night.
1905 Daily Chron. 17 July 8/6 The cigarette-laden air of the sensuous room.
1977 N.Y. Times 3 Apr. (Long Island Weekly section) 24/2 The Island is a sensuous place.
2005 G. Farrer-Halls Aromatherapy Bible i. 42 To create a sensuous evening atmosphere you could try rose, patchouli, mandarin and sandalwood.
4.
a. Readily affected by the senses; keenly responsive to pleasure derived from the senses.Generally without the pejorative overtones of sensual adj. 3a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > [adjective] > keenly alive to pleasures of senses
sensuous1836
1836 A. Kaufman tr. A. Tholuck Comm. Gospel St. John vi. 157 The more the sensuous multitude [Ger. der sinnliche Haufe] could promise themselves external happiness from such a man of God, they were the more anxious to make him their earthly ruler.
1875 J. R. Lowell in N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 370 A poet is innocently sensuous when his mind permeates and illumines his senses; when they..muddy the mind, he becomes sensual.
1909 F. Harris The Man Shakespeare ii. xv. 406 He has all the qualities and all the shortcomings of the reflective, humane, sensuous artist temperament.
1978 T. M. Horner Jonathan loved David vii. 92 The Romans indulged in it [sc. homosexuality] with a relish that highly sensuous people..frequently do.
2014 T. W. Smith On Flinching iii. 150 Paul Verlaine, famous..as a sensuous poet.
b. Of facial features: believed to indicate keen responsiveness to pleasure derived from the senses. Cf. sensual adj. 3d.In later use sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense A. 3b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > [adjective] > keenly alive to pleasures of senses > of features indicating temperament
sensuous1843
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective]
flatc1400
hardc1400
low-cheeredc1400
large?a1425
ruscledc1440
well-visagedc1440
platter-faced1533
well-faced1534
full-faced1543
fair-faced1553
bright-faceda1560
crab-faced1563
crab-snouted1563
crab-tree-faced1563
long-visaged1584
owlya1586
wainscot-faced1588
flaberkin1592
rough-hewn1593
angel-faced1594
round-faced1594
crab-favoured1596
rugged1596
weasel-faced1596
rough-faced1598
half-faced1600
chitty1601
lenten-faced1604
broad-faced1607
dog-faced1607
weaselled-faced1607
wry-faced1607
maid-faced1610
warp-faced1611
ill-faceda1616
lean-faceda1616
old-faceda1616
moon-faced1619
monkey-faced1620
chitty-face1622
chitty-faceda1627
lean-chapt1629
antic-faced1635
bloat-faced1638
bacon-facea1640
blue-faced1640
hatchet-faced1648
grave1650
lean-jawed1679
smock-faced1684
lean-visaged1686
flaber1687
baby-faced1692
splatter-faced1707
chubby1722
puggy1722
block-faced1751
haggard-looking1756
long-faced1762
haggardly1763
fresh-faced1766
dough-faced1773
pudding-faced1777
baby-featured1780
fat-faced1782
haggard1787
weazen-face1794
keen1798
ferret-like1801
lean-cheeked1812
mulberry-faced1812
open-faced1813
open-countenanced1819
chiselled1821
hatchety1821
misfeatured1822
terse1824
weazen-faced1824
mahogany-faced1825
clock-faced1827
sharp1832
sensual1833
beef-faced1838
weaselly1838
ferret-faced1840
sensuous1843
rat-faced1844
recedent1849
neat-faced1850
cherubimical1854
pinch-faced1859
cherubic1860
frownya1861
receding1866
weak1882
misfeaturing1885
platopic1885
platyopic1885
pro-opic1885
wind-splitting1890
falcon-face1891
blunt-featured1916
bun-faced1927
fish-faced1963
1843 Boston Post 7 Feb. His full sensuous (not sensual) lips fully balance his eminently intellectual forehead and eyes.
1895 H. R. Haggard Heart of World (1899) vii. 100 His mouth was cruel and sensuous.
1909 E. Thomas Jefferies 122 His expression [was] sensuous, tender, ‘silent and aware’.
1982 U. Bentley Nat. Order (1983) 19 Her mouth was red and sensuous, never completely at rest, of the type frequently called generous.
2004 Cinéblitz Internat. June 46/1 The international looking Aishwarya with the pouting lips and the sensuous eyes.
5. Of life or a way of living: devoted to the gratification of the senses.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [adjective]
sensible?a1425
voluptuousc1440
sensual1502
epicurish1548
epicurious1553
epicureala1555
epicurean1583
volupt1585
flesh-pleasing1647
sensuistic1839
sensuous1858
apolaustic1871
1858 Daily News 18 May 7/3 He lived like a fighting-cock all the time, kept a splendid house with a large retinue of servants, and might be said to have enjoyed a sensuous life.
1859 I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 309 A sensuous or a frivolous life.
1912 New-Church Messenger 27 Mar. 198/1 Men began to live a sensuous life believing only the things that reported to their minds through..their bodily senses.
1970 R. Schacht Alienation iii. 73 He designates as essential two other general kinds of life: ‘social life’, or existence in fellowship with other men, and ‘sensuous life’, or cultivation and enjoyment of the senses.
2011 A. Eastham Aesthetic Afterlives iv. 86 The examples of Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde set an ideal of a sensuous life to come.
B. n.
With the. That which is sensuous.
ΚΠ
1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend (new ed.) I. 267 The Understanding wherever it does not possess or use the Reason, as another and inward eye, may be defined the conception of the Sensuous.
1883 M. Chapman tr. P. A. R. Janet Theory of Morals i. vi. 116 We see that the sensuous is extraneous to the good, and is only its exterior form.
1916 Colonnade Mar. 78 Art is by nature amphibolous; because of art's position in both the sensuous and the spiritual.
1988 L. A. Blom & L. T. Chaplin Moment of Movement iii. 28 The improv experience strives for access to movement nonjudgementally—to the blunt and the grounded, the funny and the bizarre, the sensuous and the lyric.
2007 Church Times 16 Mar. 25/1 It has always had trouble distinguishing the sensual from the sensuous.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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