hedonistic
adj/ˈhɛdənɪstɪk/UK/hidəˈnɪstɪk/US
Etymology
From hedonist + -ic.
Definitions
Devoted to pleasure
- Among philosophers, attention to suffering has been a casualty of a long series of attacks on hedonistic utilitarianism—the doctrine that people are morally required to maximize the total surplus of happiness over suffering.
- He refers to the danger of leading our lives on a hedonistic treadmill, seeking more accomplishments and trying to get more things and more money, leading eventually to ever increasing expectations.
The neighborhood
- antonymabstemious
- antonymantihedonistic
- antonymascetic
- antonymaustere
- antonymnondecadent
- antonymnonhedonic
- antonymnonhedonistic
- antonympuritanical
- antonymself-abnegatory
- antonymundecadent
- antonymunepicurean
- antonymunhedonistic
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA