Thesaurus:sensualist
English
Noun
Sense: devotee of the experience of pleasant sensations
Synonyms
- bon viveur
- epicure
- epicurean
- hedonist
- high-stepper
- lapling (derogatory, archaic)
- lotus-eater (figuratively)
- pleasure seeker
- pleasurist
- sensualist
- softling (archaic)
- sybarite
- voluptuarian
- voluptuary
Archetypes
Antonyms
Hyponyms
By specific pleasant sensation:
Advocate of hedonism as a moral virtue:
- Aristippan (chiefly historical)
- Aristippian (chiefly historical)
- Cyrenaic (chiefly historical)
- Cyrenian (chiefly historical)
- Cyrenean (chiefly historical)
- Epicurean (chiefly historical)
By gender:
Other:
Hypernyms
See also
Further reading
- “954A. sensualist” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “sensualist” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.