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hedonism

[ heed-n-iz-uhm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good.
devotion to pleasure as a way of life:
The later Roman emperors were notorious for their hedonism.
Synonyms: carousal, dissipation, debauchery, libertinism, sensualism
Antonyms: self-denial, puritanism, abstemious, asceticism

hedonism

/ ˈhɛd-; ˈhiːdəˌnɪzəm /

ethics
1. the doctrine that moral value can be defined in terms of pleasure See utilitarianism
2. the doctrine that the pursuit of pleasure is the highest good
the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of principle
indulgence in sensual pleasures

hedonism

In ethics , the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good in life. Some hedonists, such as the Epicureans , have insisted that pleasure of the entire mind, not just pleasure of the senses, is this highest good.

First recorded in 1855–60; from Greek hēdonḗ “pleasure, enjoyment” + -ism

C19: from Greek hēdonē pleasure

His life of hedonism suddenly seems empty when he begins to fall in love with Grace.

Those avatars of hedonism, The Europeans, are aghast at discovering that the average American vacation lasts for just 4.1 days.

Georgia Congressman Bob Barr warned that “the flames of hedonism . . . are licking at the very foundations of our society.”

But the pleasures of vengeance and hedonism prove a dead end for Wanda.

After a night of hedonism, head out into Louisiana's Cajun Country.

It is comparatively easy at the present time in moral theory to slam both hedonism and apriorism.

Utilitarianism has been rightly called universal hedonism, as distinguished from the hedonism of Epicurus, which was egoistic.

Had she her secrets, as he had his, the secrets of his sullen hedonism?

For Egoistic Hedonism it is somewhat hard to find a single perfectly appropriate term.

Ethical Hedonism, as expounded by Mill, was morally inspiring by its dictate of readiness for absolute self-sacrifice.

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