sensualism

IPA: sˈɛnʃʌwʌɫɪzʌm

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

Examples of "sensualism" in Sentences

This isn't just about the sexual aspects of sensualism, it is about 'feeling'.
The philosophy which follows is that of self-centred materialism and 'sensualism'.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; thenext of its dignity and sanctity.
"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music," wrote Walter Pater in The Renaissance, a collection of criticism that scandalized Oxford in the 1870s by its apparent advocacy of sensualism and momentariness.
In full reaction from the "sensualism" of Condillac, he restored a due activity to the _ego_; he made it a force not restricted to the reception of sensations, which transform themselves, but one which seized upon, elaborated, linked together, and combined them.
(Like much of Davenport's work it is imbued with a Fourieresque utopianism and homoerotic sensualism that is both deeply appealing in its relish of the world's intellectual and sensational richness and deeply unsettling in its openness to critique as pederastic apologia.)