sensualism
111empiricism — n. 1. Dependence on experience, reliance on the evidence of sense alone. 2. (Philos.) Empirical philosophy, sensationalism, sensualism, theory of the sole validity of sense. 3. Quackery, charlatanism, charlatanry …
112ideology — n. 1. Science of ideas, theory of the origin of ideas, doctrine of the evolution of ideas. 2. Sensationalism, sensualism, empiricism, sensuous theory of the origin of ideas, doctrine that all ideas are evolved from elementary sensations …
113animalism — *animality Analogous words: sensualism, voluptuousness (see corresponding adjectives at SENSUOUS): lustfulness, lasciviousness, lecherousness (see corresponding adjectives at LICENTIOUS) …
114animality — animality, animalism are not always clearly distinguished when they are used to denote animal nature, character, or springs of action in a man or in men. Animality is often preferred when it is desired to suggest likenesses between men and… …
115dissipation — n 1. dispersion, diffusion, dissemination, scattering, emission; disintegration, dissolution, decay, fragmentation; disappearance, evaporation, evanescence, fading away. 2. squandering, wastefulness, misuse; prodigality, extravagance, lavishness …
116flesh — n 1. muscle, tissue, fat; meat, beef, mutton, veal, pork; substance, matter, pith, marrow, gist, core. 2. fatness, weight, corpulence, obesity. See fleshiness. 3. body, materiality, corporeality, corporality, physi cality; corporeity, Biol. soma …
117hedonism — n 1. epicureanism, epicurism, sybaritism; Benthamism, utilitarianism, eudemonics, Ethics. eudemonism. 2. pleasure seeking, pursuit of pleasure, la dolce vita; wild or riotous or free living, Inf. high living, Sl. partying, Sl. swinging;… …
118lechery — n indulgence, intemperance, incontinence, immoderation, self indulgence, overindulgence; profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, dissoluteness, libertinism, gallantry, debauchery, rakishness; wantonness, unrestraint, abandon, Pathol. satyriasis;… …
119libertinism — n 1. freethinking, libertarianism, latitudinarianism, free thought; liberality, liberalism, humanism, catholicity, ecumenism, ecumenicalism, unparochialism, unprovincialism; open mindedness, broad mindedness, broadness, latitude, large mindedness …
120lubricity — n 1. oiliness, slipperiness, greasiness, slitheriness; smoothness, sleekness, glassiness, glossiness, skiddiness, iciness; soapiness, waxiness, butteriness, unctuousness, oleaginousness, mucosity. 2. instability, unsteadiness, inconstancy,… …
