Sensualism /(?)/

Sen·su·al·ism

Sensualism

n.
  1. The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.
  2. The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism. (Philos.)
  3. The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good. (Ethics)