sensualism

Meaning

Noun

• Addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs.
• The doctrine that gratification of the senses is the highest good.
• The doctrine that all knowledge not only originates in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism.
• A sensual style or aesthetic.

Related

Similar words

• sensationalism

Origin

• sensual + -ism