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What does sensualism mean?

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Noun
  1. Addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs
  2. (ethics) The doctrine that gratification of the senses is the highest good.
  3. (epistemology) The doctrine that all knowledge not only originates in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism.
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A sensualism so delicate that it did not appear to be sensualism began to invade him.
These teens manifest a conspicuous sensualism and seek to push the pedal on life's enjoyments to the max.
The prevalence of such a sensualism or aestheticism would alone suffice to explain the impotence of the arts.
Cloistered in luxury, Des Esseintes contrives a regimen of exquisite sensualism.
She was dressed in some soft, flowing, white material which gave her more of a seraphic appearance than one of sensualism.
The quality of the creations results from the sensualism of raw materials and from a claimed animal identity.

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