sensuality, n. 1. carnality, voluptuousness, physicalness, sexuality, Inf sexiness, earthiness; lustfulness, concupiscence, lasciviousness, libidinousness, lecherousness, lewdness, prurience, salaciousness, SI. horniness; animality, bestiality, brutishness, coarseness, grossness.
2. unchasteness, impureness, indecency; offensiveness, vulgarity, crudeness; dirtiness, foulness, filthiness.
3. worldliness, earthliness, temporalness, secularity, profaneness, unspirituality; irreverence, irreligiousness.
sensuous, adj. 1. sensory, sensorial; sensitive, receptive, responsive.
2. rich, luscious, luxurious, sumptuous; deep, intense, affective; (of music) Lydian, soft, sweet.
sentence, n. 1. Law.
a. condemnation, decree, ruling, judgment, SI. rap.
b. punishment, prison term, term, SI. time, SI. stint, SI. stretch, SI. stretch up the river, SI. stretch in the can, SI. vacation.
-v. 2. pass judgment, pronounce sentence, pass sentence on, meet out justice to; doom, condemn, penalize, SI. send to the pokey or the lockup, SI. throw in the can, SI. send up, SI. send up the river; commit to prison, Inf. lock [s.o.] up and throw the key away.
sententious, adj. 1. pompous, bombastic, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, lofty, orotund, stilted; turgid, swollen, inflated, overblown, puffed-up, Inf. windy, Inf. gassy; magniloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, Inf. .high-falutin, big-sounding, lexiphanic, Rare. grandisonant; overdrawn, strained, affected, put-on.
2. pithy, terse, succinct, concise, compact; epigrammatic, laconic, aphoristic, apothegmatic, short and sweet; capsule, condensed, summary, synoptic, in a nutshell, compendious.
sentiment, n. 1. feeling, attitude; response, reaction, Inf. gut reaction.
2. opinion, outlook, view, viewpoint, point of view, slant; notion, idea, thought, conception, estimation, theory; stance, stand, angle, position, posture, thinking, way of thinking; conviction, mind, persuasion.
3. sentimentality, sentimentalism. See - sentimentality.
sentimental, adj. 1. emotional, feeling, warm, tender, affectionate, loving, soft-hearted, warm-hearted, sympathetic, compassionate; impressionable, sensitive, receptive, responsive.
2. maudlin, melodramatic, mawkish, misty-eyed, dewy-eyed, gushy, Australian, soony, Inf. drippy, SI. icky; soupy, romantic, with the soul of a shopgirl, Inf. mushy, Inf. slushy, Inf. gloppy, SI. schmaltzy, coweyed, salt-eyed; teary, lachrymose, weepy, Inf. drippy, choked up, soppy; sloppy, uncontrolled; babyish, namby-pamby, insipid; over-romantic, Inf. corny, SI. hokey; affected, Inf bleeding heart; nostalgic, pining, languishing.
sentimentality, n. emotionalism, gushiness, mawkishness, maudlinism, maudlinness, sentimentalism; emotiveness, emotivity, play on or appeal to the emotions, melodrama, melodramatics, dramatics, theatrics, playacting; corniness, hokiness, affectation; bathos, mush, Inf. glop, treacle, SI. hearts and flowers, SI. schmaltz, SI. goo; SI. sob stuff, SI. sob story.
sentinel, n. guard, sentry, picket, patrol, garrison; scout, lookout, watch, watchdog; protector, defender, guardian, guarder, guardsman; custodian, watchman, night watchman.
separate, v. 1. part, divide, space, interspace, space out, set at intervals, set or keep apart; disentangle, pull apart, disconnect, disengage, disarticulate, uncouple, unyoke, disunite; intersect, bisect.