官能|かんのうkannou[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounthe senses
2. nounsensuality; carnality

• Synonym感覚かんかくNeutralNeutral word for sensation or the faculty of feeling, as in 「金銭感覚」; 「官能」 usually points to physical or sexual pleasure.
• Related体感たいかんNeutralSensations felt in the body, taking in surface and internal feelings as a whole, as in 「体感温度」; carries no sexual nuance.
• Antonym理性りせいNeutralAntonym: reason or rational thought, standing opposite the sensory, instinctive side of 「官能」.

Use 「官能」 for the senses as bodily faculties or for physical, sexual pleasure, as in 「官能小説」 and 「官能検査」. For neutral sensation say 「感覚」, for bodily feeling without sexual nuance 「体感」; 「理性」 is the opposite.

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1. 体からだの器官きかん、特とくに目め、耳みみ、鼻はななどの感覚器官かんかくきかんの働はたらき。
2. 感覚器官かんかくきかんを通とおして得えられる快こころよさ。特とくに肉体的にくたいてき、性的せいてきに得えられる感覚かんかくや快楽かいらく。