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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sensualism  \Sen"su*al*ism\,  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sensualism 
  n  1:  desire  for  sensual  pleasures  [syn:  {sensuality},  {sensualness}] 
  2:  the  ethical  doctrine  that  feeling  is  the  only  criterion  for 
  what  is  good  [syn:  {sensationalism}]




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