different between sensual vs lascivious

English

Alternative forms

• sensuall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Late Latin sensualis (“endowed with feeling, sensual”), from Latin sensus (“feeling, sense”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?nsju??l/, /?s?n?u??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?n.?u.?l/

Adjective

sensual (comparative more sensual, superlative most sensual)

1. Inducing pleasurable or erotic sensations.

2. Of or pertaining to the physical senses; sensory.

3. Provoking or exciting a strong response in the senses.

Derived terms

• sensualise, sensualize
• sensually
• supersensual

Related terms

• sense
• sensible
• sensuous

Translations

Further reading

• sensual in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sensual in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sensual at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• unseals

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin sensualis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /s?n.su?al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /sen.su?al/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

sensual (masculine and feminine plural sensuals)

1. sensual

Related terms

• sensualitat

Further reading

• “sensual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Portuguese

Etymology

Late Latin sensualis, from Latin sensus.

Adjective

sensual m or f (plural sensuais, comparable)

1. Sexually attractive; sexy.

Inflection

Related terms

• sensualidade

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin sensualis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sen?swal/, [s?n?swal]

Adjective

sensual (plural sensuales)

1. sensual

Derived terms

• sensualismo
• sensualista
• sensualmente

Related terms

• sensualidad

Further reading

• “sensual” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Latin lasc?vi?sus, from lasc?via (“sportiveness, lustfulness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??s?v??s/

Adjective

lascivious (comparative more lascivious, superlative most lascivious)

1. Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.

   • Sir, I will answer anything. But I beseech you, if't be your pleasure and most wise consent, as partly I find it is, that your fair daughter, at this odd-even and dull watch o'the night, transported with no worse nor better guard but with a knave of common hire, a gondolier, to the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor – if this be known to you, and your allowance, we then have done you bold and saucy wrongs; but if you know not this, my manners tell me we have your wrong rebuke.

   • The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.

Synonyms

• wanton, lewd, lustful

Related terms

Derived terms

• lasciviously
• lasciviousness

Translations

See also

• lecherous

Anagrams

• laviscious