Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SENS'U-AL-ISM
SENS'U-AL-ISM, n.
- 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 sensation. – Condillac.
- A state of subjection to sensual feelings and appetite.
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