Where does “nonsensuality” come from?
nonsensuality (English) comes from English sensuality, from Middle French sensualité, from Latin sensualitas, from Latin sēnsuālis, from Latin sēnsus, from Dutch census, from Latin census, from Latin censeo — to cover, conceal; hornless.
nonsensuality (English): The state or condition of being nonsensual
Definitions
- The state or condition of being nonsensual
Ancestry of “nonsensuality”, step by step
nonsensuality traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English sensuality
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | sensuality | The state of being sensual, sensuous or sexy; A... |
| 2 | Middle French | sensualité | — |
| 3 | Latin | sensualitas | ability to sense |
| 4 | Latin | sēnsuālis | pertaining to sense, endowed with feeling |
| 5 | Latin | sēnsus | faculty or power of perceiving; perception, feeling, sensation, sense |
| 6 | Dutch | census | a census |
| 7 | Latin | census | census, a registering of the populace and their... |
| 8 | Latin | censeo | I give an opinion; I think, suppose or judge; I... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kensēō | to give an opinion |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kensējō | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱens-éh₁-ye-ti | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱens- | to announce, to proclaim; to put in order |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱem- | to cover, conceal; hornless |