SENSUALISM

noun the regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good.

2. sensualism ·noun the condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.

3. sensualism ·noun 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.