hedonistic

From hedonist + -ic.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛdənɪstɪk/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /hidəˈnɪstɪk/

hedonistic (comparative more hedonistic, superlative most hedonistic)

1. Devoted to pleasure

   Synonyms: decadent, sybaritic; see also Thesaurus:hedonistic

   • 1999, Jamie Mayerfeld, Suffering and Moral Responsibility, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 3:

     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.

   • 2003, Paul Pearsall, The Beethoven Factor, Hampton Roads Publishing, →ISBN:

     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.

• libertine (hedonistic with regard to sex), gluttonous (hedonistic with regard to food), Epicurean, epicurean, Cyrenaic, Cyrenian, Aristippan, Aristippian (philosophical, chiefly historical)

Borrowed from French hédonistique.

hedonistic m or n (feminine singular hedonistică, masculine plural hedonistici, feminine/neuter plural hedonistice)

1. hedonistic

   Synonym: hedonist

• “hedonistic”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026