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The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.

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  1. n. The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.
  2. n. 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. n. The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good.
  4. n. desire for sensual pleasures
  5. n. (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good
  6. 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.
  7. The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of theunderstanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformedsensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism.
  8. n. (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good