Sensualism Definition

sĕnsho͝o-ə-lĭzəm
noun
Frequent or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures.
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Sensationalism.

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(ethics) The doctrine that gratification of the senses is the highest good.
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(epistemology) The doctrine that all knowledge not only originates in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism.

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Singular:
sensualism
Plural:
sensualisms

Origin of Sensualism

Sensualism Sentence Examples

  • In the Beaux-Arts, Batteux developed a theory which is derived from Locke through Voltaire's sceptical sensualism.

  • Confronting the various systems co-ordinated as sensualism, idealism, scepticism, mysticism, with the facts of consciousness, the Elects= sm ?

  • Descartes died in 1650 in the communion of the Church, his philosophy contained seeds of revolt; and the sensualism of Locke, popularized in Italy by Genovesi, prepared the way for revolution.

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