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sensualism
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sensualism has 2 senses
- sensualism(n = noun.feeling) sensuality, sensualness - desire for sensual pleasures; Array is a kind of concupiscence, eros, physical attraction, sexual desire
- sensualism(n = noun.cognition) sensationalism - (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good; Array is a kind of philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory
Derived form noun sensualist1
CIDE DICTIONARY
sensualism, n. [Cf. F. sensualisme.].
- The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality. [1913 Webster]
- The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism. [1913 Webster]
- The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good. Krauth-Fleming. [1913 Webster]
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