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HEDONISTIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hedonistic mean?
• HEDONISTIC (adjective)
The adjective HEDONISTIC has 1 sense:
1. devoted to pleasure
Familiarity information: HEDONISTIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Devoted to pleasure
Synonyms:
epicurean; hedonic; hedonistic
Context example:
epicurean pleasures
Similar:
indulgent (characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone)
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
Jim was a plumber's apprentice whose weak chin and hedonistic temperament, coupled with a certain nervous stupidity, promised to take him nowhere in the race for bread and butter.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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