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

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  • noun someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek ἡδονή (hēdonē, "pleasure") + -ist.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    A Conversation with Thomas Ligotti 2007

  • 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

  • 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

  • Longworth, a self-proclaimed "hedonist," used to say.

    NYT > Home Page By PAMELA PAUL 2010

  • Prof. Nordhaus is respectful toward both national economic accounting and hedonic psychology (from the Greek for pleasure, as in "hedonist").

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2009

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