sensuality

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SENSUAL'ITY, noun Devotedness o the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures. Those pamper'd animals That rage in savage sensuality. Shak. They avoid dress, lest they should have affections tainted by any sensuality. Addison.
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