"sensualist" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sensualists [plural]
Etymology: From sensual + -ist. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sensual|ist}} sensual + -ist Head templates: {{en-noun}} sensualist (plural sensualists)
  1. A person who believes in enjoying sensuality and the experience of pleasant sensations. Categories (topical): People Synonyms: pleasure seeker, voluptuary, sensualist Translations (person who believes in enjoying sensuality): τρυφητής (truphētḗs) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), senzualista [masculine] (Czech), sensualist [masculine] (Dutch), élvhajhász (Hungarian), érzéki ember (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-sensualist-en-noun-84JagAC7 Disambiguation of People: 66 34 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ist, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ist: 55 45 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 55 45 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 22 22 31 26 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 23 23 29 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 61 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of 'person who believes in enjoying sensuality': 77 23
  2. One who holds to the doctrine of sensualism. Synonyms: Aristippian, Cyrenaic, Epicurean Translations (one who holds to the doctrine of sensualism): senzualista [masculine] (Czech), sensualist [masculine] (Dutch), szenzualista (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-sensualist-en-noun-eCiw5i-D Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ist, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Ancient Greek translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ist: 55 45 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 55 45 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 22 22 31 26 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 23 23 29 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of 'one who holds to the doctrine of sensualism': 15 85
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: person, wanton Related terms: sensation, sense, sensual, sensualism, sensuality, pleasure
Synonyms: bon viveur, epicure, epicurean, hedonist, high-stepper, lapling [archaic, derogatory], lotus-eater [figuratively], pleasure seeker, pleasurist, sensualist, softling [archaic], sybarite, voluptuarian, voluptuary Hyponyms: drunkard, glutton, libertine, Aristippan [historical], Aristippian [historical], Cyrenaic [historical], Cyrenian [historical], Cyrenean [historical], Epicurean [historical], bon vivant, boulevardier, man about town, woman about town, Corinthian, flaneur

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.