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.

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English

sensual

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