'Sensualism' definitions:
Definition of 'sensualism'
From: WordNet
noun
Desire for sensual pleasures [syn: sensuality, sensualness, sensualism]
noun
(philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good [syn: sensualism, sensationalism]
Definition of 'Sensualism'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Ethics) The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good. --Krauth-Fleming. [1913 Webster]