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polysensuous (comparative more polysensuous, superlative most polysensuous)

  1. (archaic) Having many senses or meanings.
    • 1874, Dante Alighieri, Henry Bernard Cotterill, Dante: Selections from the Inferno, page lxxiii:
      After explaining that the 'sense of the work is not simple, but it may be called polysensuous, that is, of many senses,' and after showing that there is first a literal sense, and secondly an allegorical sense []