sensualism

Meanings

Plural: sensualisms

Noun

• desire for sensual pleasures
• (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good
• Addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs.
• The doctrine that gratification of the senses is the highest good.
• The doctrine that all knowledge not only originates in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism.
• A sensual style or aesthetic.

Synonyms

sensationalism, sensuality, sensualness

Related Words

sensualist, sensuality, sensually