Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Cyrenaic school of ancient Greek philosophers.
- noun One who advocates or acts upon the theory of hedonism; one who regards pleasure as the chief good.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who believes in hedonism.
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- noun someone devoted to
hedonism
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures
Etymologies
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Examples
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You could be heavily reward dependent, indifferent to novelty, and mildly harm avoidant—a stay-at-home hedonist, in other words.
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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You could be heavily reward dependent, indifferent to novelty, and mildly harm avoidant—a stay-at-home hedonist, in other words.
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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You could be heavily reward dependent, indifferent to novelty, and mildly harm avoidant—a stay-at-home hedonist, in other words.
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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You could be heavily reward dependent, indifferent to novelty, and mildly harm avoidant—a stay-at-home hedonist, in other words.
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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This is sometimes referred to as a hedonist view of existence, and for one reason or another practically no one is persuaded that there’s anything to it.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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This is sometimes referred to as a hedonist view of existence, and for one reason or another practically no one is persuaded that there’s anything to it.
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The body of a hedonist is the coffin of a dead soul and there's no soul more dead than one which died young.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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He is perhaps the only perfectly frank and unmitigated "hedonist" which European literature at this hour offers.
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917
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Longworth, a self-proclaimed "hedonist," used to say.
NYT > Home Page By PAMELA PAUL 2010
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Prof. Nordhaus is respectful toward both national economic accounting and hedonic psychology (from the Greek for pleasure, as in "hedonist").
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