HEDONIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hedonist mean? 

• HEDONIST (noun)
  The noun HEDONIST has 1 sense:

1. someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures

  Familiarity information: HEDONIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEDONIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

hedonist; pagan; pleasure seeker

Hypernyms ("hedonist" is a kind of...):

sensualist (a person who enjoys sensuality)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hedonist"):

Corinthian; man-about-town; playboy (a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure)

Derivation:

hedonism (an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good)

hedonism (the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle)

 Context examples 

“Big words,” he smiled. “But what is a hedonist?”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then you are an individualist, a materialist, and, logically, a hedonist.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)