epicurism
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Epicurismus, from Epicurus + -ismus (“-ism”). Equivalent to epicure + -ism.
Noun edit
epicurism (countable and uncountable, plural epicurisms)
- Synonym of Epicureanism.
- 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter IV, Captains of Industry”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope):
- Deep-hidden under wretchedest god-forgetting Cants, Epicurisms, Dead-Sea Apisms; forgotten as under foulest fat Lethe mud and weeds, there is yet, in all hearts born into this God’s-World, a spark of the Godlike slumbering.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French épicurisme.
Noun edit
epicurism n (uncountable)
Declension edit
declension of epicurism (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) epicurism | epicurismul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) epicurism | epicurismului |
| vocative | epicurismule | |