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Definition of: sensualism
(sen′sh
·əl·iz′əm) noun
1. Sensuality.
2. Philos. A debased sensationalism.
3. A system of ethics predicating the pleasures of sense to be the highest good.
4. Emphasis on the sensuous elements of beauty, rather than the ideal.
—sen′su·al·ist noun
—sen′su·al·is′tic adjective
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