What is another word for sensualists?

Pronunciation: [sˈɛnsjuːəlˌɪsts] (IPA)

Sensualists are people who enjoy the pleasures of the senses, particularly taste, touch, and smell. They are often associated with hedonism, and are thought to prioritize pleasure over other values. Synonyms for sensualists include epicureans, connoisseurs, hedonists, pleasure-seekers, and sybarites. Epicureans are a type of sensualist who focuses on the enjoyment of food and drink, while connoisseurs are experts in a particular area of sensual pleasure, such as wine or perfume. Hedonists, pleasure-seekers, and sybarites all prioritize pleasure in their lives, sometimes to the exclusion of other values. Regardless of their label, sensualists are those who appreciate the finer things in life and who seek out experiences that satisfy their senses.

Synonyms for Sensualists:

What are the hypernyms for Sensualists?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    hedonists, indulgers, pleasure-seekers.

Usage examples for Sensualists

Like most sensualists of the grosser kind he was a bore, and Mr. Dainopoulos had other clients.
"Command"
William McFee
For these pretended ascetics, who profess to scorn delights, and to endure all manner of hardness, are really coarse common sensualists, who go about corrupting and seducing.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
While the vigorous rule of the five good emperors, as they are called, had had many passages in its history of an adverse character, those who followed after, being untaught in the traditions, and strangers to the spirit of old Rome, foreigners, or adventurers, or sensualists, were protectors of the new religion.
"Callista"
John Henry Cardinal Newman

Famous quotes with Sensualists

  • Drunkards and sensualists have become heroes and saints; but sluggards have never risen to the significance and worth of human beings. Sloth enfeebles the root of life, and degrades more surely, if less swiftly, than the sins of passion.
    John Lancaster Spalding
  • Plato in his 'Laws,' remarks that 'Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of the understanding.' This just opinion, if applied to mere sensualists, who disbelieve in God because his holiness is a restraint upon their infamous passions, has since been applied to the pure thinkers like Spinoza, to whom it is an insult and an outrage. Let us see how little such a remark is applicable to those who thoughtfully pause before adopting a creed which, however dictated by a feeling of piety, is far less reverential than thoughtful silence.
    George Holyoake

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