What does "sensualism" mean?
Sensualism: (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.
Additional senses
- 2.(Ethics) The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good. Krauth-Fleming.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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