1. The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.
2. (Philos.)
Defn: 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)
Defn: The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good. Krauth-Fleming.
SENSUALIST
Sen"su*al*ist, n. Etym: [CF. F. sensualiste.]
1. One who is sensual; one given to the indulgence of the appetites or senses as the means of happiness.
2. One who holds to the doctrine of sensualism.
SENSUALISTIC
Sen`su*al*is"tic, a.
1. Sensual.