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1. The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.
2. <philosophy> 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. <ethnology> The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good.
Origin: Cf. F. Sensualisme.
(01 Mar 1998)
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