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English
Adjective
polysensuous (comparative more polysensuous, superlative most polysensuous)
- (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 […]