sensualism

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs. countable,uncountable
  2. The doctrine that gratification of the senses is the highest good. countable,uncountable
  3. The doctrine that all knowledge not only originates in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism. countable,uncountable
    — 1858, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 1, Gottfried Wilhem von Leibnitz, 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.
  4. A sensual style or aesthetic. countable,uncountable

词形变化

sensualisms plural

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Etymology tree
English sensual
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English sensualism
From sensual + -ism.
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