Sensualism
Sensualism , noun
[Compare French sensualisme.]
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.
(Ethics) The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good. — Krauth-Fleming