sensual+appetites

  • 41sensory reception, human — Introduction  means by which humans react to changes in external and internal environments.   Ancient philosophers called the human senses “the windows of the soul,” and Aristotle described at least five senses sight, hearing, smell, taste, and… …

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  • 42flesh — {{11}}flesh (n.) O.E. flæsc flesh, meat, also near kindred (a sense now obsolete except in phrase flesh and blood), common West and North Germanic (Cf. O.Fris. flesk, M.L.G. vlees, Ger. Fleisch flesh, O.N. flesk pork, bacon ), of uncertain origin …

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  • 43carnality — n. Sensuality, grossness (of mind), sensual appetites, fleshly lusts …

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  • 44flesh — n. 1. Muscle and fat (of animal bodies). 2. Meat, animal food. 3. Pulp, edible part (of fruit). 4. Body (as opposed to spirit), flesh and blood, natural man (as opposed to the spiritual). 5. Carnality, sensual appetites, bodily desires. 6 …

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  • 45walk after the flesh — Live in sin, indulge sensual appetites …

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  • 46sensualism — sen•su•al•ism [[t]ˈsɛn ʃu əˌlɪz əm[/t]] n. dedication to sensual appetites • Etymology: 1795–1805 sen′su•al•ist, n. sen su•al•is′tic, adj …

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  • 47animalism — /ˈænəməlɪzəm/ (say anuhmuhlizuhm) noun 1. an animal state; state of being actuated by sensual appetites, and not by intellectual or moral forces; sensuality. 2. the doctrine that human beings are without a spiritual nature …

  • 48car|nal|ist — «KAHR nuh lihst», noun. a person given to the indulgence of sensual appetites; an unspiritual person …

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  • 49carnal — carnality, carnalness, carnalism, n. carnally, adv. /kahr nl/, adj. 1. pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body, its passions and appetites; sensual: carnal pleasures. 2. not spiritual; merely human; temporal; worldly: a man of… …

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  • 50carnal — [kär′nəl] adj. [ME & OFr < LL(Ec) carnalis, fleshly (in contrast to spiritalis, SPIRITUAL) < L caro (gen. carnis), flesh: for IE base see HARVEST] 1. in or of the flesh; bodily; material or worldly, not spiritual 2. having to do with or… …

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