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Webster 1913 Edition
Sensualism
Sen′su-al-ism
,Noun.
[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.