'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]