ETYM Cf. French animalisme.
1. Preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites; SYN. physicality.
2. The doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature.
ETYM Cf. French sensualisme.
The ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good; SYN. sensationalism.
ETYM CF. French sensualité, Latin sensualitas sensibility, capacity for sensation.
Desire for sensual pleasures; SYN. sensualness, sensualism.
A sensuous feeling.