Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sensualism"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sensualism \Sen"su*al*ism\, n. [Cf. F. sensualisme.]
1. The condition or character of one who is sensual;
subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.
2. (Philos.) 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.
3. (Ethics) The regarding of the gratification of the senses
as the highest good. --Krauth-Fleming.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sensualism
n 1: desire for sensual pleasures [syn: {sensuality}, {sensualness}]
2: the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for
what is good [syn: {sensationalism}]
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