However, Milton's word had simply assumed the lascivious connotation by 1870 in most dialects. The word was borrowed from Latin sensus "perception, feeling, meaning", derived from sentire "to perceive, feel, know". Apparently, this word wandered down from PIE sent- "to go; to feel", ...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook nonsensuous (ˌnɒnˈsɛnsjʊəs) adj formalnot involving or engaging the senses (ie colourless, tasteless, odourless, etc) Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 ...
sensuous愉悦感官的,性感的 来自sense,感官,-ous,形容词后缀。引申词义愉悦感官的,性感的。 英文词源 sensuous (adj.) 1640s, "pertaining to the senses" apparently coined by Milton to recover the original meaning of sensual and avoid the lascivious connotation that the older word had acquired, but by...
Lifeworlds as pedagogy for socio-cultural change: sensuous food futures, practices, and meaning in everyday experienceSteven Mcgreevy
Sensuous and sensual are close in meaning but not identical, and sensuous was actually coined by the poet John Milton so that he wouldn't have to use sensual.
You may find it difficult to understand the thought of Hume, and if you have no philosophical training its implications will doubtless escape you; but no one with any education at all can fail to understand exactly what the meaning of each sentence is. Few people have written English with ...
respecting the local history and culture. The shape and color of every exterior and interior come from this. Even “Kinari” is named for this concept, whose meaning is “Ecru” in English. Then, children can live a safe and happy life with such a good connection with the local community...
This probably is a figurative use of a literal meaning "find one's way," or "go mentally." According to Watkins and others, this is from a PIE root *sent- "to go" (source also of Old High German sinnan "to go, travel, strive after, have in mind, perceive," German Sinn "sense...
in English is recorded from 1520s. They usually are reckoned as five; sometimes a "muscular sense" and "inner (common) sense" are added (perhaps to make the perfect seven), hence the old phrasethe seven senses, sometimes meaning "consciousness in its totality." For the meaning "consciousnes...