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sensualisms

sensualisms is the plural of sensualism.

Meaning of sensualism

Noun

sensualism (countable and uncountable, plural sensualisms)

  1. Addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs.
  2. The doctrine that gratification of the senses is the highest good.
  3. The doctrine that all knowledge not only originates in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism.
    • He [Locke] repudiated any supposed dowry of original truths or innate or connate ideas, and endeavored to show how, by acting on the report of the senses and personal experience, the understanding arrives at all the ideas of which it is conscious. The mode of procedure in this case is empiricism...1858, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 1, Gottfried Wilhem von Leibnitz
  4. A sensual style or aesthetic.

Questions about sensualisms

What is sensualisms the plural of?
Sensualisms is the plural of sensualism.

Words near sensualisms in the dictionary

  1. sensualise
  2. sensualised
  3. sensualises
  4. sensualising
  5. sensualism
  6. sensualisms
  7. sensualist
  8. sensualistic
  9. sensualistically
  10. sensualists
  11. sensualities

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