sensualism
English
noun
Definitions
- Addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs.
- (ethics) The doctrine that gratification of the senses is the highest good.
- (epistemology) The doctrine that all knowledge not only originates in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism.
- (art) A sensual style or aesthetic.
Etymology
Suffix from English sensual.
Origin
English
sensual
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- asensual English
- con-sensual English
- hypersensual English
- nonsensual English
- sensual English
- sensualise English
- sensualist English
- sensualistic English
- sensuality English
- sensualization English
- sensualize English
- sensually English
- sensualness English
- supersensual English
- ultrasensual English
- unisensual English
- unsensual English
- sensus Latin