sensuously

1. 1.

   with aesthetic gratification or delight

   “sensuously delighting in the wine and food”

Questions about sensuously

What does sensuously mean?

sensuously means "with aesthetic gratification or delight".

How many syllables are in sensuously?

sensuously has 4 syllables and divides as sen-su-ou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is sensuously a common word?

sensuously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.