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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Sensualism

· Sen·su·al·ism · IPA
01 n. The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.
  1. 1.
    The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.
  2. 2.
    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.(Philos.)
  3. 3.
    The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good.(Ethics)