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]

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.
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   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.
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   3. (Ethics) The regarding of the gratification of the senses
      as the highest good. --Krauth-Fleming.
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