Associations to the word «Sensualism»

Wiktionary

SENSUALISM, noun. Addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs
SENSUALISM, noun. (ethics) The doctrine that gratification of the senses is the highest good.
SENSUALISM, noun. (epistemology) The doctrine that all knowledge not only originates in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism.

Dictionary definition

SENSUALISM, noun. Desire for sensual pleasures.
SENSUALISM, noun. (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good.

Wise words

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