What's the difference between eroticism and sensuality?

Eroticism


Definition:

  • (n.) Erotic quality.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The intent of this paper is to provide concerned professionals dealing with various aspects of human sexuality with information relevant to anal eroticism.
  • (2) Penetration will only occur once you have established a sense of levity, safety and trust between the both of you, plus a high level of non-penetrative eroticism.
  • (3) It's extremely common to have fantasies that involve coercive sex, group sex, or some other kind of "forbidden" eroticism; in fact, many people have fantasies of which they're utterly ashamed.
  • (4) It doesn’t take an art critic to notice the eroticism of an artwork, but perhaps it takes more than a machine to understand precisely what constitutes “adult content”.
  • (5) So in Northanger Abbey, Catherine is introduced to "a whole new world of eroticism ... where sex knows no boundaries" by Henry.
  • (6) Fourier famously predicted work could become play – its qualities could absorb the qualities of aimlessness, humour, even eroticism.
  • (7) The entry on Belmondo in Marlene Dietrich's A-B-C "New blood, new looks, new vitality, new fluidity, new eroticism, new normality for that malady-ridden strain of today's neurotic actors."
  • (8) The Greeks and Romans associated eroticism and (vague) constancy with extramarital desire, rather than any conjugal paradigm.
  • (9) In the discussion of Disney and his work (based, in part on writings about him) it is suggested that he exhibited traits associated with anal eroticism, which raises an interesting question about the popularity of his work with the American public.
  • (10) Until recently she was best known for her international best-seller Wetlands, a frank debut novel about the sex life of an 18-year-old that has been described as everything from literary eroticism to undiluted pornography.
  • (11) Being sexually adventurous often leads to surprising eroticism.
  • (12) During 6 to 10 years of corticosteroid therapy there occurred substantial reduction of hypertrichosis, disappearance of temporal recession, and decrease in eroticism.
  • (13) "Eroticism," she once said, "is very important in attracting people's souls."
  • (14) The recent liberalization of attitudes towards sexuality has brought with it the desire by some individuals to seek alternate methods of sexual stimulation and gratification, among them an exploration of anal eroticism.
  • (15) Or he may need to arouse himself with an anger response in order to summon sexual energy (the best eroticism is accompanied by a little aggression).
  • (16) The paper compares selected examples of age-structured homosexuality to understand same-sex eroticism as a "predictable" outcome of particular combinations of age, gender, and kinship.
  • (17) The following emotions were studied: fear-anxiety, anger-aggression, joy-laughter, love-eroticism, love-tenderness, and sadness-tears.
  • (18) His complex and beautiful works align the contours of the car with the welcoming eroticism of the female body, ideas that were (and still are) such a feature of product-promotion techniques.
  • (19) A case of transmission of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) associated retrovirus (ARV) by brachioproctic eroticism is described.
  • (20) The attitudes of 52 counselors and trainees toward homosexuality showed respondents were less likely to accept homosexual persons in eroticized contexts, more likely in noneroticized contexts, with mixed acceptance for homosexuals in sensitive professional positions.

Sensuality


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being sensual; devotedness to the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures; luxuriousness; voluptuousness; lewdness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Strict fundamentalists oppose music in any form as a sensual distraction - the Taliban, of course, banned music in Afghanistan.
  • (2) Back then, the entire city felt drenched in sensuality, and so did my home.
  • (3) Concentrate on the way he constructs the space of an interior or orchestrates a sensual camera movement that he invented himself - the camera gliding on unseen tracks in one direction while uncannily panning in another direction - and you perceive how each Dreyer film almost brutally reconstructs the universe rather than accepting it as a familiar given.
  • (4) Even more graphically than Picasso’s Women of Algiers with their multiple breasts and bums, Nu couché is a sensual masterpiece – and far more conventionally so than anything Picasso painted.
  • (5) Let’s leave that discussion to another day, but imagine a combination of the two – sort of Transformers meets Ex Machina – in which a race of giant sexy robots battles it out with another race of really mean giant sexy robots while paltry human beings look on in awe, and teenage boys (and girls) experience incredibly conflicting and disturbing sensual awakenings in the front row of the Beckenham Odeon.
  • (6) Such myths were transformed by Renaissance artists such as Titian into alluring sensual painting.
  • (7) The only quality she seems to have, in his eyes, is a sensual body.
  • (8) "What I find most inspiring is how she expresses her sensuality," says Mara Carlyle, who made one of last year's most critically lauded albums, Floreat.
  • (9) And I began to wonder what a language might sound like that was not cool but hot, that was noisy and crowded and vulgar and sensual in a way that the Indian reality is.
  • (10) Pain is both sensual perception and sense of touch, and it leads to emotional change of health, which has an effect back to a pain perception.
  • (11) Like the American revolution and the French revolution, like the three major dictatorships of the 20th century – I say "major" because there have been more, Cambodia and Romania among them – and like the New England Puritan regime before it, Gilead has utopian idealism flowing through its veins, coupled with a high-minded principle, its ever-present shadow, sublegal opportunism, and the propensity of the powerful to indulge in behind-the-scenes sensual delights forbidden to everyone else.
  • (12) The secondary effects of Ecstasy were the stimulant effects of energy and activation, and the psychedelic effects of insight and perceptual and sensual enhancement.
  • (13) And Push had been very much part of that, it's such a sensual and sensitive way of dancing with another person.
  • (14) Gary organises a pre-surgery workshop about the mental transition needed from lingering trauma to embracing sensuality, and sends them all home with a vibrator.
  • (15) She was someone sensual, her skin being finally woken and properly explored.
  • (16) A sensual conspiracy fuels a virulent nostalgia, and the Cuban propensity for exaggeration ensures that it never dies.
  • (17) As she says, it “pushes the boundaries of what a carpet can be; turning it from this solidly domestic material into this sensual, cobra-like being.” The impetus to create a carpet – something Sterling has never done before – came from her stay in 2012 at the apartments in east London’s Raven Row .
  • (18) The Sensual World was originally intended as a direct lift of Molly Bloom’s monologue from James Joyce’s Ulysses , but Bush was forced to write her own lyrics when she was denied permission to quote the source material.
  • (19) It’s easy enough to hear the sensuality, of course, but to spot the undercurrent that makes her pierce you as much as soothe and seduce you, that’s getting more to the heart of her.
  • (20) Locals come here to kick off their weekend with a few cocktails, such as the Luchador Belt and the Chocolate Sensual.

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