Sēn'sū-al-ism, n.

(sēn'shū-al-), n. [Fr. 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.