hedonistic

English

hedonistic (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.

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

devoted to pleasure

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

Declension of hedonistic