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sensualism

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  1. 1. n. The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality. Source: opted
  2. 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. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. desire for sensual pleasures Source: wordnet
  5. 5. n. (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good Source: wordnet
  6. 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. Source: webster
  7. 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. Source: adambom
  8. 8. n. (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good Source: ecdict

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