3. Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious; voluptuous; lewd; libidinous.
No small part of virtue consists in abstaining from that wherein sensual men place their felicity.
Atterbury. 4. Pertaining or peculiar to the philosophical doctrine of sensualism.
Sensualism
(Sen"su*al*ism) n. [Cf. F. sensualisme.]
1. The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.
2. (Philos.) 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) The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good. Krauth- Fleming.
Sensualist
(Sen"su*al*ist), n. [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.
2. Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism.
Sensuality
(Sen`su*al"i*ty) n. [CF. F. sensualité, L. sensualitas sensibility, capacity for sensation.] The
quality or state of being sensual; devotedness to the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence
in carnal or sensual pleasures; luxuriousness; voluptuousness; lewdness.
Those pampered animals
That rage in savage sensuality.
Shak.
They avoid dress, lest they should have affections tainted by any sensuality.
Addison. Sensualization
(Sen`su*al*i*za"tion) n. The act of sensualizing, or the state of being sensualized.
Sensualize
(Sen"su*al*ize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sensualized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sensualizing ] To make
sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized
by pleasure. Pope.
By the neglect of prayer, the thoughts are sensualized.
T. H. Skinner. Sensually
(Sen"su*al*ly), adv. In a sensual manner.
Sensualness
(Sen"su*al*ness), n. Sensuality; fleshliness.
Sensuism
(Sen"su*ism) n. Sensualism.
Sensuosity
(Sen`su*os"i*ty) n. The quality or state of being sensuous; sensuousness. [R.]
Sensuous
(Sen"su*ous) a.
