单词 | sensuism |
释义 | † sensuismn. Obsolete. 1. Philosophy. = sensationalism n. 1. Cf. sensualism n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [noun] > philosophy of sense perception > sensualism sensualism1797 sensuism1840 sensationalism1846 sensationism1846 sensism1846 1840 Brit. Critic 27 139 The Sensuism and Empiricism of the sophistical school. 1853 Sydney Univ. Cal. 1852–3 56 Generations must elapse before the sensuism of Locke and idealism of Berkeley attain that development which they always logically involved. 1872 Contemp. Rev. 20 540 Sensationalism or sensuism, which would deny to all human knowledge the character of universality and necessity. 1911 Hibbert Jrnl. 9 172 Paganism philosophised is Sensuism. 2. Theology. The tendency to indulge, or emphasize the role of, the senses and imagination in worship and other devotional practices. Often depreciative.Chiefly used with reference to Roman Catholicism. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > rapture > [noun] > pretended seraphicism1676 sensuism1848 1848 Eng. Rev. June 392 That newly-aroused spirit..which finds relief in the sensuism of Rome from..a system that endeavoured to spiritualize the soul of man into complete independence on [sic] his body. 1871 Month May 480 In turning over the pages of Mr Harris' Apocalypse, where this idea is developed, and repeated, and insisted on with every ingenuity of mystical sensuism. 1878 A. B. Grosart in H. More Compl. Poems Mem. Introd. 30/1 I suppose the meaning is that, unconsecrated by high personal devoutness, mysticism is apt to ‘degenerate’ into sensuism, if not sensualism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1840 |
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