Associations to the word «Sensualism»

Wiktionary

SENSUALISM, noun. Addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs
SENSUALISM, noun. (ethics) The doctrine that gratification of the senses is the highest good.
SENSUALISM, noun. (epistemology) The doctrine that all knowledge not only originates in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism.

Dictionary definition

SENSUALISM, noun. Desire for sensual pleasures.
SENSUALISM, noun. (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope