sensualism : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sensualism	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for sensualism
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sensualism n desire for sensual pleasures [syn: sensuality, sensualness, sensualism] (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good Synonym(s): sensualism, sensationalism
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sensualism \Sen"sualism\, n. [Cf. F. sensualisme.] 1. The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality. 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. 3. (Ethics) The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good. --Krauth-Fleming.