sensualism
sensualism · sensualisms
сенсуализм
Addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairsAddiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs.
Meaning
4 senses(countable, uncountable)Addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs.
desire for sensual pleasures
(countable, uncountable)The doctrine that gratification of the senses is the highest good.
(philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good
(countable, uncountable)The doctrine that all knowledge not only originates in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism.
сенсуализмsensualizm
(countable, uncountable)A sensual style or aesthetic.
Translations
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By meaning 1
doctrine: everything reduces to transformed sensation:
Forms
plural: sensualisms| Singular | sensualism |
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Synonyms
3 synonymsClose in meaning
- (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good:sensationalism
- desire for sensual pleasures:sensualitysensualness
Word family
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