hedonistic
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhɛdənɪstɪk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /hidəˈnɪstɪk/
Adjective
edithedonistic (comparative more hedonistic, superlative most hedonistic)
- Devoted to pleasure
- 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.
Hyponyms
edit- libertine (hedonistic with regard to sex), gluttonous (hedonistic with regard to food), Epicurean, epicurean, Cyrenaic, Cyrenian, Aristippan, Aristippian (philosophical, chiefly historical)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editdevoted to pleasure
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Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French hédonistique.
Adjective
edithedonistic m or n (feminine singular hedonistică, masculine plural hedonistici, feminine and neuter plural hedonistice)
Declension
editDeclension of hedonistic
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | hedonistic | hedonistică | hedonistici | hedonistice | ||
definite | hedonisticul | hedonistica | hedonisticii | hedonisticele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | hedonistic | hedonistice | hedonistici | hedonistice | ||
definite | hedonisticului | hedonisticei | hedonisticilor | hedonisticelor |