Thesaurus:sensualist

Thesaurus

sensualist

English

Noun

Sense: devotee of the experience of pleasant sensations

Synonyms

• epicure
• epicurean
• hedonist
• lotus eater
• pleasure seeker
• sensualist
• softling
• sybarite
• voluptuary

Archetypes

• Heliogabalus

Antonyms

• abstinent

Hyponyms

• Aristippan (chiefly historical)
• Aristippian (chiefly historical)
• Cyrenaic (chiefly historical)
• Cyrenian (chiefly historical)
• Cyrenean (chiefly historical)
• drunkard    [⇒ thesaurus]
• Epicurean (chiefly historical)
• glutton    [⇒ thesaurus]
• libertine    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• person    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• pleasure    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “954A. sensualist” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “sensualist” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.