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polysensuous

polysensuous adjective: having many senses or meanings.

Adjective

polysensuous (comparative more polysensuous, superlative most polysensuous)

  1. (archaic) Having many senses or meanings.
    • 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 […]1874, Dante Alighieri, Henry Bernard Cotterill, Dante: Selections from the Inferno, page lxxiii

Forms of polysensuous

comparativemore polysensuous
superlativemost polysensuous

Questions about polysensuous

What does polysensuous mean?
Polysensuous means having many senses or meanings.
What part of speech is polysensuous?
Polysensuous is an adjective.

Words near polysensuous in the dictionary

  1. polysensitised
  2. polysensitization
  3. polysensitize
  4. polysensitized
  5. polysensory
  6. polysensuous
  7. polysepalous
  8. polysequence
  9. polysequences
  10. polyserial
  11. polyserine

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