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[ US /ˈhidəˌnɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /hˈɛdənˌɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good
  2. the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle

How To Use hedonism In A Sentence

  • It's not so much that I've quietened down, as that I've channelled my energies into things that are more productive than out-and-out hedonism.
  • The club sold its soul to the devil of capitalism, and whilst the short term gains were success, admiration, a growing international fan base and kudos, that avenue of hedonism has finally delivered the bill.
  • Various objections might be made to motivational hedonism: that we are often motivated by things that do not in fact maximize our pleasure, such as motivation to step under a shower that one takes to be suitably warm but which is in fact scalding hot; that not every pleasure that our options for action make available to us motivates us; or that the very idea of maximum ˜pleasure over pain™ or Hedonism
  • The whole point of a sports car is hedonism, the selfish pursuit of pleasure.
  • La gente que se siente afectada por no tener el ultimo chichito tecnologico o pagarlo un poco más, solo piensan en su hedonismo y no en el país, que sí necesita afianzar su industria, como la supo tener y que necesita dar trabajo a los argentinos, en lugar de darle trabajo a los obreros de otras latitudes; es muy mezquina la actitud de los detractores a esta idea. Global Voices in English » Argentina: Proposal to Increase Taxes on Some Technology Products
  • Greek philosopher , the troditional founder Of the Cyrenaic school of hedonism.
  • In the twentieth century, most of those sympathetic to utilitarianism replaced hedonism with the desire-fulfilment theory.
  • Religion itself can be another form of ego gratification - a kind of spiritual consumerism that focuses on having spiritual experiences to aggrandize the self, spiritual hedonism, but hedonism nonetheless.
  • He celebrated the larrikin streak in the Australian soul, the irreverence, the hedonism and physicality and of course the bloody-minded stoicism, obduracy and deviousness.
  • There is more than a hint of hedonism, indeed a new libertinism.
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