hedonism
noun/ˈhɛdənɪzəm/UK/ˈhiːdənɪzəm/US
Etymology
First attested 1856: from Ancient Greek ἡδονή (hēdonḗ, “pleasure”) + -ism.
Definitions
The philosophical belief that happiness, particularly sensual pleasure, is the highest…
The philosophical belief that happiness, particularly sensual pleasure, is the highest good in life.
- It began with his shrugging off of both family and faith and taking the Amtrak Vermonter out of Penn Station to major in minor hedonism and minor in the major modernists at a hippie college in the great Jewless north.
A general devotion to the pursuit of pleasure.
The neighborhood
- synonymCyrenaicism
- antonymasceticism
- neighborhedonic
- neighborhedonics
- neighborhedonist
- neighborhedonistic
- neighborhedonistically
- neighbordebauchery
- neighborselfishness
- neighborEpicureanism
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for hedonism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA