Sen"su*al*ism (?), n. [Cf. F. sensualisme.]
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.
© Webster 1913.