sensualist

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  1. A person given to the indulgence of the appetites or senses; one who places his chief happiness in carnal pleasures. There must be some meanness and blemish in the beauty which the sensualist no sooner beholds than he covets. Bulwer, What will he Do with it? vii. 23. The short method that Plato and others have proposed for deciding the issue between the Philosopher and the Sensualist is palpably fallacious. H. Sidgwick, Methods of Ethics, p. 127.
  2. One who holds the sensual theory in philosophy; a sensationalist. Also sensuist.

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