单词 | sensualism |
释义 | sensualismn. 1. The pursuit of, or devotion to, physical pleasure and the gratification of the senses; sensuality.In quot. 1878: devotion to material interests, materialism. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] delice?c1225 delicacya1393 sensualityc1425 voluptuousness1508 sensualness1530 luxuriousness1542 deliciousness1548 epicurism1570 epicurity1574 carnal-mindedness1607 Epicureanism1726 sensualism1760 pleasurehood1842 fleshly-mindedness1846 apolausticism1883 sensism1890 the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > materialism or devotion to material things corporealism1678 materialism1851 sensualism1878 1760 J. Green Princ. & Pract. Methodists 60 Under a spiritual cover to make near approaches to the grossest sensualism. 1793 W. Godwin Enq. Polit. Justice I. i. v. 73 It is probable that he who should form himself with the greatest care upon a system of solitary sensualism, would come at last to a decision..in favour of fresh herbs and water from the spring. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iv. 57 Is not thy youth A vain and feverish dream of sensualism? 1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. iv. 62 There is something quite military in the sensualism of the Romans—an ‘arbiter bibendi’ chosen [etc.]. 1878 R. W. Emerson Fortune of Republic 27 In this country..there is, at present, a great sensualism, a headlong devotion to trade. 1906 C. Mansfield Girl & Gods xv. 164 The ruts and looseness on a face coarsened by sensualism. 1975 Bks. Abroad 49 664 The orgiastic ‘Dionysus’ brings a high sensualism, lust, inebriation and frenzy, and teems with monsters and wild beasts. 2004 K. Bird Redressing Past iii. 124 As figures of nature, sensualism, and play, the fairies can be read as representing what is natural as opposed to what is civilized. 2. Philosophy. = sensationalism n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [noun] > philosophy of sense perception > sensualism sensualism1797 sensuism1840 sensationalism1846 sensationism1846 sensism1846 1797 Brit. Critic 9 528 The importance of governing man upon religious principles, is then maintained, against the sensualism of Helveticus, and the atheism of Bayle. 1832 H. G. Linberg tr. V. Cousin Introd. Hist. Philos. xii. 393 I define the Scotch philosophy..as an honorable protestation against the extravagances of the last consequences of sensualism. 1848 R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Incarnation xiv. 493 The school of Locke replies that they [sc. the premises of reason] owe their existence to the senses... That theory, which, matured by Locke's subtiler and more consistent disciple, Hume, may be called the system of Sensualism. 1958 W. Heisenberg Physics & Philos. v. 83 The difficulty of metaphysical realism..became the starting point for the empiristic philosophy, for sensualism and positivism. 2004 A. Marciano in J. B. Davis et al. Elgar Compan. Econ. & Philos. ii. 27 Sensualism is a philosophy of the mind that considers man as a tabula rasa upon which impressions received through the senses from the external world progressively gather. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1760 |
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