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What is the adjective for sensuism?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs desensitize, sensationalize, sense, sensitize, desensitise, sensitise, desensationalize, sensate, sensationalise, sensualise and sensualize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

sensible
  1. (now dated or formal) Perceptible by the senses.
  2. Easily perceived; appreciable.
  3. (archaic) Able to feel or perceive.
  4. (archaic) Liable to external impression; easily affected; sensitive.
  5. Of or pertaining to the senses; sensory.
  6. (archaic) Cognizant; having the perception of something; aware of something.
  7. Acting with or showing good sense; able to make good judgements based on reason.
  8. Characterized more by usefulness or practicality than by fashionableness, especially of clothing.
  9. Synonyms:
      10. rational, reasonable, logical, sound, wise, judicious, practical, astute, prudent, commonsensical, realistic, shrewd, sober, intelligent, discerning, pragmatic, levelheaded, reasoned, sagacious, informed, sharp, sane, clever, thoughtful, commonsense, balanced, sage, canny, valid, coherent, good, knowing, commonsensible, together, justified, just, solid, circumspect, grounded, hard, discriminating, analytical, mature, firm, analytic, responsible, discreet, farsighted, consequent, level-headed … more
  10. Examples:
      11. “They manage to make this sound quite sensible and to the benefit of both patients and the NHS.”
      “This made for a wet ride but was a sensible design for working at sea.”
      “There is at least one potential architecture that will allow you to build the system with a sensible amount of risk and at reasonable cost.”
sensitive
  1. having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses
  2. Responsive to stimuli.
  3. (of a person) easily offended, upset or hurt
  4. (of an issue, topic, etc.) capable of offending, upsetting or hurting
  5. (of an instrument) accurate
  6. Synonyms:
      7. perceptive, sympathetic, thoughtful, feeling, understanding, receptive, tactful, comforting, commiserating, commiserative, compassionate, condoling, considerate, consoling, empathetic, empathic, supportive, sympathising, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, tender-hearted, warm, attentive, aware, careful, intuitive, caring, cognizant, concerned, conscious, diplomatic, discerning, kind, patient, impressionable, reactive, responsive, sensitised, sensitized, emotionable, impressible, insightful, kindly, knowing, perceiving, unselfish, finely tuned, supersensitive, touchy feely … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “We were given a long debriefing on how to be sensitive to the feelings of the mourners.”
      “The hot coffee burnt Kramer's sensitive skin while he was in the cinema.”
      “My bruise was still a little sensitive a few days after my accident.”
sensational
  1. Of or pertaining to sensation.
  2. Piquing or arousing the senses.
  3. Provocative.
  4. Exceptionally great.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. amazing, thrilling, exciting, electrifying, astonishing, dramatic, remarkable, stirring, breathtaking, fascinating, spectacular, astounding, buzzworthy, extravagant, noticeable, stimulating, eye-popping, mind-blowing, awesome, inspiring, mind-boggling, exhilarating, incredible, gripping, stunning, wondrous, intoxicating, impressive, awe-inspiring, staggering, riveting, striking, fabulous, mind-bending, stupendous, electric, heart-stopping, jaw-dropping, miraculous, wonderful, hair-raising, rousing, rip-roaring, spine-tingling, fantastic, marvelous, compelling, enchanting, enthralling, moving … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “It also made a special mention of the sensational performance by the comedy dance team of Red and Curley.”
      “This regulation is aimed at preventing the presentation of sensational images to boost media ratings.”
      “The dire wolves whom he had befriended had been telling one another sensational tales of the special owl who would retrieve the ember.”
senseless
  1. Without feeling or consciousness; deprived of sensation
  2. Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense
  3. Without consideration, awareness or sound judgement
  4. Synonyms:
      5. foolish, stupid, silly, absurd, nonsensical, brainless, crazy, fatuous, witless, daft, preposterous, asinine, unwise, insane, nutty, wacky, mad, lunatic, crackpot, idiotic, loony, dippy, daffy, cuckoo, dotty, kooky, whacky, simpleminded, looney, harebrained, zany, kookie, ridiculous, irrational, lunkheaded, unintelligent, bubbleheaded, balmy, ludicrous, featherheaded, inane, inept, cockeyed, screwball, imbecilic, jerky, tomfool, sappy, fool, illogical … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “I glanced at her while Catherine continued her senseless babble about the virtues of being Paul.”
      “During 2003, we must pass meaningful legislation in Congress to stop senseless lawsuits.”
      “It was just so very hard to indulge in senseless entertainment when she could see no practical value to it.”
sensate
  1. Perceived by one or more of the senses.
  2. Having the ability to sense things physically.
  3. Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. sentient, living, animate, live, breathing, alive, conscious, alert, sapient, feeling, aware, awake, intelligent, flesh-and-blood, self-aware, capable of feeling … more
sensuous
  1. Appealing to the senses, or to sensual gratification.
  2. (not comparable) Of or relating to the senses; sensory.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. sensorial, sensory, sensile, sensational, sensitive, sensatory, sensual, sensible, luscious, hedonistic, sybaritic, lush, luxurious, pleasurable, epicurean, gratifying, rich, bacchanalian, sumptuous, exciting, pleasing, affective, deep, fleshy, intense, opulent, sensualistic, pleasure-seeking, self-indulgent, pleasure-loving, indulgent, decadent, licentious, intemperate, dissolute, profligate, immoderate, extravagant, carnal, voluptuous, unrestrained, libertine, abandoned, wanton, depraved, voluptuary, shameless, louche, sinful … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “It is up to chance whether or not one stumbles on the sensuous triggers that can unlock the memories.”
      “Have a sensuous meal with your mate. Include chocolate!”
      “During the interwar period, there was little more sensuous in the arts than a woman in command, celebrating the eroticism of the body.”
sensual
  1. (not comparable) Of or pertaining to the physical senses; sensory.
  2. Provoking or exciting a strong response in the senses.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. lewd, lustful, erotic, carnal, lascivious, libidinous, lecherous, licentious, raunchy, randy, passionate, sexual, sexy, hot, steamy, fleshly, unchaste, debauched, physical, arousing, animal, bodily, corporeal, sensuous, hedonistic, luscious, epicurean, sybaritic, seductive, luxurious, lush, exciting, heavy, unspiritual, voluptuary, animalistic, appetitive, Dionysiac, pleasing, delightful, hedonic, X-rated, hot and heavy, physically gratifying, salacious, wanton, lubricious, prurient, dissolute, horny … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Trusselby, with his store of sensual tales of priests and nuns, is without a home, being forced to earn his keep in winter by repeating his stories in peasant homes.”
      “Involvement with a sensual woman is often for Maupassant's hero a terrifying experience, from which many evils, not the least of which is death itself, can ensue.”
      “A second side to aestheticism in painting was the recovery of classicism, but now in sensual or symbolic guise.”
sensable
  1. Capable of being sensed; perceptible, tangible.
  2. Misspelling of sensible.
sensualistic
  1. sensual
  2. Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. epicurean, horny, hot, lusty, provocative, sensual, steamy, voluptuous
  4. Examples:
      5. “Indulging in lavish feasts and passionate encounters, their sensualistic lifestyle became the epitome of hedonism.”
sensationalist
  1. Sensationalistic; tending to sensationalize; characterized by sensationalism (the use of exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention).
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sensationalistic, sensational, lurid, melodramatic, screaming, catchpenny, shocking, scandalous, startling, gee-whiz, exaggerated, overdramatized, trashy, pulp, yellow, graphic, rubbishy, explicit, cheap, kitschy, dramatic, tacky, juicy, garish, shock-horror, tabloid, unrestrained, tasteless, overripe, excessive, full-frontal, whiz-bang, extreme, pulpish, pulpy, rubbish, trash, kiss-and-tell, revealing, divulging … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The irony is that this is not written in a sensationalist manner.”
sensely
  1. Of, pertaining to, or perceived by sense or the senses; sensory; sensual; sensible.
sensical
  1. (neologism) That makes sense; showing internal logic; sensible.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. logical, rational, sensible
  3. Examples:
      4. “A nonsensical sentence, then, is one which is inconsistent with S, while a sensical sentence is one which is consistent with S.”
      “As such, it is both fitting and ironic that the conclusion of sensical reason should be found in the attributions of the pretend itself.”
      “As they are not verifiable in any sense of the term they are non sensical and pseudo-statements.”
sensorial
  1. Of or pertaining to sensation or the senses; sensory.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sensitive, sensuous, sensational, sensatory, sensory, sensile, sensual, sensible
  3. Examples:
      4. “But even this selection inhibits only the attitude and not the sensorial excitement.”
      “The color alternations intensify at various moments, as though attempting to overwhelm the viewer's sensorial apparatus.”
      “The nation's industrial heart, Ho Chi Minh City whacks the visitor like a sensorial avalanche.”
senseful
  1. (now rare) Full of sense; meaningful; significant.
  2. Examples:
      3. “In our understanding, lighting installations should combine proven and modern technology in a senseful synthesis.”
      “We are actively involved in these committees and thus make a constructive contribution to senseful definitions and agreements.”
      “Would that this partizanship of literary workers for the senseful nature of dreams were only more unequivocal!”
sensive
  1. (obsolete) Having sense or sensibility; sensitive.
sensificatory
  1. (archaic) Susceptible of, or converting into, sensation; sensory.
sensific
  1. Exciting sensation; causing something to be felt.
sensitized
  1. Made sensitive, especially to some specific agent.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. allergic, sensitive, hypersensitive, susceptible, oversensitive, affected, dyspathetic, intolerant, affected by, averse to, sensitised, perceptive, sympathetic, thoughtful, feeling, understanding, receptive, tactful, comforting, commiserating, commiserative, compassionate, condoling, considerate, consoling, empathetic, empathic, supportive, sympathising, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, tender-hearted, warm, attentive, aware, careful, intuitive, caring, cognizant, concerned, conscious, diplomatic, discerning, kind, patient, impressionable, reactive, responsive … more
sensifacient
  1. converting into sensation
sensory
  1. Of the senses or sensation.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sensorial, sensatory, sensational, sensile, sensitive, sensual, sensible, sensuous
  3. Examples:
      4. “Indeed, nerve cells that receive converging sensory inputs are quite widespread in the brain.”
sensitising
  1. Alternative spelling of sensitizing
sensationalizable
  1. (rare) That can be sensationalized.
  2. Examples:
      3. “In any case, the broadsheets find enough sensationalizable material in politics and business for their own marketing purposes.”
      “Granted that when presidential primary season sets in, the least abnormality, or the most sensationalizable normality, becomes the focus of the procrustean imperative.”
sensitised
  1. Alternative spelling of sensitized
sensorlike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a sensor.
sensiferous
  1. Exciting or conveying sensation.
sensillar
  1. Of or relating to a sensillum.
sensigenous
  1. Causing or exciting sensation.
sensationalistic
  1. sensationalist
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sensational, lurid, sensationalist, screaming, catchpenny, gee-whiz, melodramatic, exaggerated, overdramatized, trashy, pulp, scandalous, graphic, rubbishy, explicit, cheap, kitschy, dramatic, tacky, yellow, juicy, garish, shock-horror, shocking, startling, unrestrained, tasteless, overripe, excessive, full-frontal, whiz-bang, extreme, tabloid, pulpish, pulpy, rubbish, trash, kiss-and-tell, revealing, divulging … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The journalist's sensationalistic coverage of the celebrity scandal captured the attention of the entire nation, fueling public interest and excitement.”
      “Crime coverage, especially on the local TV news, is invariably sensationalistic.”
      “Many people complain about the saturation news coverage given to yucky, sensationalistic stories of limited public value.”
sensuall
  1. Obsolete form of sensual.
sensorless
  1. Without the use of sensors.
  2. Examples:
      3. “For advancement sensorless control is necessary model of PMSM extend about core loss.”
sensationless
  1. Devoid of sensation.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. numb, benumbed, deadened, numbed, insensible, dead, insensate, insensitive, senseless, stupefied, unfeeling, desensitised, desensitized, frozen, immobilised, immobilized, paralysed, paralyzed, torpid, anaesthetized, asleep, dazed, stunned, drugged, torpefied, anaesthetised, anesthetized, chilled, comatose, insentient, petrified, unconscious, without feeling, deprived of sensation, in shock, knocked out, inert, cold, out cold, passed out, out, spark out, dead to the world, out for the count, soporose, incapacitated, soporous, crippled, blacked out, out of it … more
sensitory
  1. Dated form of sensory.
sensitizing
  1. That sensitizes
sensiblest
  1. superlative form of sensible: most sensible
desensitized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of desensitize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. deadened, numbed, benumbed, dulled, anaesthetised, anesthetized, soothed, pacified, lulled, made inactive, made less sensitive, rendered insensible, blunted, sedated, stupefied, hit, anaesthetized, knocked out, relaxed, narcotized, doped, rendered insensitive, treated, poisoned, paralysed, paralyzed, dampened, dosed, drug, drugged, obtunded, fixed, fixt, opiated, medicated, physicked, diminished, reduced, dosed up, tranquilized, doped up, stunned, unnerved, hardened, dazed, dullened, tranquillised, torpefied, damped, coarsened … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Unfortunately, many have become desensitized to their suffering and their aspirations.”
      “Alarm fatigue occurs when nurses become so desensitized to the constant beeping that they ignore important warnings that a patient's condition might be worsening.”
desensitizing
  1. present participle of desensitize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. deadening, numbing, benumbing, dulling, anaesthetising, anesthetizing, soothing, pacifying, lulling, making inactive, making less sensitive, rendering insensible, blunting, sedating, stupefying, anaesthetizing, knocking out, relaxing, narcotizing, doping, rendering insensitive, treating, poisoning, paralysing, paralyzing, dampening, dosing, drugging, obtunding, hitting, fixing, opiating, medicating, physicking, diminishing, reducing, dosing up, tranquilizing, doping up, stunning, unnerving, hardening, dazing, dullening, tranquillising, torpefying, damping, coarsening, cauterizing, cauterising … more
sensationalized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sensationalize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dramatised, dramatized, exaggerated, overstated, embellished, magnified, overemphasised, overemphasized, amplified, overdid, overdone, embroidered, overplayed, inflated, hyperbolized, colored, coloured, elaborated, overstressed, aggrandized, catastrophized, heightened, performed, gilded, gilt, acted, burlesqued, melodramatized, playacted, presented, staged, executed, produced, showed, shown, splashed, laid it on thick, blew up, blown up, blew up out of all proportion, blown up out of all proportion, touched up, played up, dressed up, hammed it up, hamming up, hammed up, play-acted, made a big thing out of, expanded on … more
sensationalizing
  1. present participle of sensationalize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dramatising, dramatizing, exaggerating, overstating, embellishing, magnifying, overemphasising, overemphasizing, amplifying, overdoing, embroidering, overplaying, inflating, hyperbolizing, coloring, colouring, elaborating, overstressing, aggrandizing, catastrophizing, heightening, performing, gilding, acting, burlesquing, melodramatizing, playacting, presenting, staging, executing, producing, showing, splashing, laying it on thick, blowing up, blowing up out of all proportion, touching up, playing up, dressing up, hamming it up, hams up, play-acting, making a big thing out of, expanding on, laying on, laying it on, making a production of, playing to gallery, playing to the gallery, making a performance of … more
sensed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sense
  2. Synonyms:
      3. found, achieved, attained, acquired, got, gained, obtained, understood, had, knew, realized, won, felt, landed, reached, wangled, bagged, earned, hit, secured, met, came by, came to have, got hold of, got one's hands on, laid hold of, fell to the lot, got a hold of, met with, realised, seen, detected, discerned, inferred, intuited, perceived, picked up, apprehended, observed, read, readen, recognised, recognized, apperceived, gotten the impression, had a feeling, had a hunch, suspected, felt in bones … more
sensing
  1. present participle of sense
  2. Synonyms:
      3. feeling, perceiving, detecting, discerning, making out, noticing, observing, identifying, having a sensation of, being aware of, noting, becoming aware of, intuiting, picking up on, recognizing, apperceiving, recognising, appreciating, apprehending, suspecting, seeing, realizing, divining, understanding, comprehending, distinguishing, picking up, grasping, conceiving, registering, savvying, telling, reading, cognizing, guessing, catching, scenting, compassing, seizing, assimilating, twigging, deciphering, inferring, making, decoding, knowing, beholding, learning, getting, deeming … more
desensitised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of desensitise
desensitising
  1. present participle of desensitise
desensationalized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of desensationalize
desensationalizing
  1. present participle of desensationalize
sensated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sensate
sensating
  1. present participle of sensate
sensationalised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sensationalise
sensationalising
  1. (Britain) present participle of sensationalise
sensualised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sensualise
sensualising
  1. present participle of sensualise
sensualized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sensualize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sexualized, eroticized, objectified, sexualised
sensualizing
  1. present participle of sensualize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sexualize, eroticize, eroticizing, objectify, objectifying, sensualize, sexualise, sexualizing, sexualising
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