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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. desire for sensual pleasures;
[syn: sensuality, sensualness, sensualism]

2. (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good;
[syn: sensualism, sensationalism]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. (Ethics) The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good. --Krauth-Fleming. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sensualism n 1: desire for sensual pleasures [syn: sensuality, sensualness, sensualism] 2: (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good [syn: sensualism, sensationalism]