English Dictionary

sensualism

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

Addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs. / (ethics) The doctrine that gratification of the senses is the highest good.

日本語の意味

官能的快楽にのめり込む状態、またはその執着。 / 感覚の充足を最高の善とみなす倫理思想

His descent into sensualism ruined his marriage and alienated him from his children.

彼の官能的な快楽への耽溺は結婚生活を破壊し、子どもたちとの関係を疎遠にした。

意味（1）

Addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs.

意味（2）

(ethics) The doctrine that gratification of the senses is the highest good.

意味（3）

(epistemology) 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; the result with Locke was sensualism,--more fully developed by Condillac, [18] in the next century.

意味（4）

(art, architecture) A sensual style or aesthetic.

sensualisms （ plural ）