English Explanatory Dictionary

sensualist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person who believes in enjoying sensuality and the experience of pleasant sensations.
  2. One who holds to the doctrine of sensualism.

Word forms

sensualist sensualists

Etymology

From sensual + -ist.

Synonyms

bon viveur epicure epicurean hedonist high-stepper lapling lotus-eater pleasure seeker pleasurist sensualist softling sybarite voluptuarian voluptuary Aristippian Cyrenaic

Antonyms

abstinent anhedonic ascetic puritan

Related words

sensation sense sensual sensualism sensuality pleasure
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