sensualize

English

Alternative forms

• sensualise

Etymology

From sensual +‎ -ize.

Verb

sensualize (third-person singular simple present sensualizes, present participle sensualizing, simple past and past participle sensualized)

1. (transitive) To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure.
   • 1839, Thomas Harvey Skinner, Religion of the Bible: In Select Discourses:

     By that one neglect [of prayer], thy thoughts are sensualized.

   • 1725–1726, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, and Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:

     Not to suffer oneself to be sensualized by pleasures

   • 1993, Scott C. Ratzan, Aids: Effective Health Communication For The 90s:

     normalizing and sensualizing condom use may be of great benefit

Derived terms

• sensualization

 

References

• “sensualize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Portuguese

Verb

sensualize

1. inflection of sensualizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative