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Sensualism vs Physicality - What's the difference?

sensualism | physicality |

As nouns the difference between sensualism and physicality

is that sensualism is addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs while physicality is physical attributes.

sensualism

English

Noun

  • 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, ,
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, title=,
  • , passage=For Sensualism the only source of human knowledge is sensation: everything reduces to transformed sensations.}}

    Synonyms

    * sensationalism

    physicality

    English

    Noun

  • Physical attributes.
  • Obsession with physical urges.