Sensualism

Same as: sensism

1.

The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.

2.

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.

The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good.