(n.) One who is sensual; one given to the indulgence of the appetites or senses as the means of happiness.
(n.) One who holds to the doctrine of sensualism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, the emphasis in understanding the OR has shifted from a predominantly "sensualistic" platform to a predominantly "actualistic" one.
(2) "The perception is that Howard is one of our great political writers," he says, "but he is also a writer who surprises, because he seems to go much further: he has a poetic mind, but he's also a sensualist; his writing is very funny, but he's also someone with humanity.
(3) The two find a wonderful comic rhythm together, with Allen mounting one of his speediest displays of shtick in years – arm waving, stammering, eyebrows a-pogo – while Turturro plays it straight, his character a zen-master sensualist, bringing his healing powers to the lives of the women he touches: Vanessa Paradis , Sharon Stone , Sofía Vergara .
(4) Forgive me for going all Proustian, but I believe my mother bred a sensualist in me as I grew up in Townsville with the curtains closed, writing elementary computer code in the nursery.
Voluptuary
Definition:
(n.) A voluptuous person; one who makes his physical enjoyment his chief care; one addicted to luxury, and the gratification of sensual appetites.
(a.) Voluptuous; luxurious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even voluptuary habits, such as smoking and alcohol intake, could be detrimental in this respect.
(2) Two cases of acute voluptuary poisoning by infusions of dry leaves of stramonium are reported.
(3) Though he may run a tight ship in his businesses, in private Sir Philip is a hedonistic voluptuary , whose permatanned corpulence bears witness to his lifestyle as accurately as Cripps's own skeletal physique did in the 1940s.
(4) The task is complicated by Donne's penchant for flouting literary and social convention as he successively overturns Ovid's influential portrayal of Sappho as an aging voluptuary reclaimed for heterosexuality, the virulent homophobia of Renaissance humanists, and the coy idealizations and transient evocation given to lesbian affectivity by the very few Renaissance writers (including Shakespeare) who touched on the subject at all.