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sensualism

noun

Etymology

From sensual + -ism.

  1. derived from sensus
  2. suffixed as sensualism — “sensual + ism”

Definitions

  1. Addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs.

  2. The doctrine that gratification of the senses is the highest good.

  3. The doctrine that all knowledge not only originates in sensation, but are transformed…

    The doctrine that all knowledge not only originates in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism.

    • For Sensualism the only source of human knowledge is sensation: everything reduces to transformed sensations.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A sensual style or aesthetic.

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