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Sensuous

Of or pertaining to the senses, or sensible objects; addressing the senses; suggesting pictures or images of sense.

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Aesthetic 84% connected

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Aesthetic 84% connected

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Aesthetical 84% connected

Of or Pertaining to aesthetics; versed in aesthetics; as, aesthetic studies, emotions, ideas, persons, etc.

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Aesthetical 84% connected

Of or Pertaining to aesthetics; versed in aesthetics; as, aesthetic studies, emotions, ideas, persons, etc.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Esthetic 84% connected

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oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Esthetic 84% connected

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oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Esthetical 84% connected

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Esthetical 84% connected

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Sensation 74% connected

An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one o…

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Sensation 74% connected

An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one o…

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Camera obscura unknown · 78% connection

An apparatus in which the images of external objects, formed by a convex lens or a concave mirror, are thrown on a paper or other whit…

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Carpet noun · 78% connection

A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet.

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Clairvoyant adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while in a mesmeric state which are not present to the senses.

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Ecstasy noun · 78% connection

The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impr…

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Emblem noun · 78% connection

A visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural ap…

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Expressional adjective · 78% connection

Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea or sentiment.

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Fancy noun · 78% connection

The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying su…

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Feel verb · 78% connection

To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasur…

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Feeling noun · 78% connection

The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; tha…

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Figure noun · 78% connection

A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial languag…

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Iconical adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to, or consisting of, images, pictures, or representations of any kind.

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Iconography noun · 78% connection

The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the ico…

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Iconolatry noun · 78% connection

The worship of images as symbols; -- distinguished from idolatry, the worship of images themselves.

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Iconomachy noun · 78% connection

Hostility to images as objects of worship.

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Iconomical adjective · 78% connection

Opposed to pictures or images as objects of worship.

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Ideation noun · 78% connection

The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; the exercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects of sense ar…

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Illustrate verb · 78% connection

To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance.

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Image noun · 78% connection

A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metapho…

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