Exhibitionism vs Sensualism - What's the difference?
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The practice or character trait of deliberately drawing attention to oneself.
(pathology) The practice or character trait of deliberately displaying one's genitals, nipples, or buttocks in public.
Addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs
(ethics) The doctrine that gratification of the senses is the highest good.
(epistemology) The doctrine that all knowledge not only originates in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism.
* 1858 , The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 1, ,
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As nouns the difference between exhibitionism and sensualism
is that exhibitionism is the practice or character trait of deliberately drawing attention to oneself while sensualism is addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs.exhibitionism
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- He [Locke] repudiated any supposed dowry of original truths or innate or connate ideas, and endeavored to show how, by acting on the report of the senses and personal experience, the understanding arrives at all the ideas of which it is conscious. The mode of procedure in this case is empiricism; the result with Locke was sensualism,--more fully developed by Condillac, [18] in the next century.