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Sensualism

The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.

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Concupiscence 76% connected

Sexual lust; morbid carnal passion.

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Eros 76% connected

Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent…

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Sensual 74% connected

Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the…

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Sensual 74% connected

Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the…

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Sensationalism 92% connected

The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; s…

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Sensuality 92% connected

The quality or state of being sensual; devotedness to the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures; luxu…

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Sensualness 92% connected

Sensuality; fleshliness.

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Aesthetic noun · 86% connection

(philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful; "he despised the esthetic of minimalism"

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Determinism noun · 86% connection

(philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often underst…

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Empiricism noun · 86% connection

(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience

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Esthetic noun · 86% connection

(philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful; "he despised the esthetic of minimalism"

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Formalism noun · 86% connection

(philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded…

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Idealism noun · 86% connection

(philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality

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Intuitionism noun · 86% connection

(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired primarily by intuition

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Legal philosophy noun · 86% connection

the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do

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Materialism noun · 86% connection

(philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality

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Mechanism noun · 86% connection

(philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes

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Nativism noun · 86% connection

(philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are innate

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Naturalism noun · 86% connection

(philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanati…

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Nominalism noun · 86% connection

(philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name

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Peripateticism noun · 86% connection

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Platonism noun · 86% connection

(philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names

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Pragmatism noun · 86% connection

(philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value

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Probabilism noun · 86% connection

(philosophy) the doctrine that (since certainty is unattainable) probability is a sufficient basis for belief and action

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-ion unknown · 78% connection

A noun suffix denoting act, process, result of an act or a process, thing acted upon, state, or condition; as, revolution, the act or…

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-ist unknown · 78% connection

A noun suffix denoting an agent, or doer, one who practices, a believer in; as, theorist, one who theorizes; socialist, one who holds…

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Abstinence noun · 78% connection

The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or f…

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Animalism noun · 78% connection

The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.

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Bestial adjective · 78% connection

Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual.

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Blunt verb · 78% connection

To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blun…

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Bulimy noun · 78% connection

A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.

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Carnal adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the body or its appetites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opp…

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Character noun · 78% connection

Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a…

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Debauchery noun · 78% connection

Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness.

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Dissolute adjective · 78% connection

Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauch…

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Emancipation noun · 78% connection

The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of…

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Epicure noun · 78% connection

One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table.

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Epithumetical adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to sexual desire; sensual.

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