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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as supersensual.

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  • For better or worse, it turns out every generation gets its own resurgence/glut of the bloodsucker phenom; 30 years ago it was all about Anne Rice -- whose Vampire Chronicles I fully admit to absolutely adoring in the '80s and which, from a sheer kinky, hypersensual writing-quality perspective, still run circles around Meyer (mind, this was well before Rice got drunk on way too much Jesus and neutered the whole vibe) ...

    Mark Morford: Enough With the Whiny Vampires Already 2009

  • By contrast, as Bernard Lewis has pointed out, Islam-fatalistic, hypersensual, and still puzzled by its own failures-was struggling even to limp along.

    Latest Articles Taki's Magazine 2009

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