hedonist
pronunciation
How to pronounce hedonist in British English:
UK [ˈhi:dənɪst]
How to pronounce hedonist in American English:
US [ ˈhidnɪst]
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- Noun:
- someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures
Word Origin
- hedonist (n.)
- 1822, in reference to the Cyrenaic school of philosophy that deals with the ethics of pleasure, from Greek hedonikos "pleasurable," from hedone "pleasure," related to hedys "sweet," cognate with Latin suavis (see sweet). A hedonist is properly the follower of any ethical system in which some sort of pleasure ranks as the highest good. The Epicurian identifies this pleasure with the practice of virtue.
Example
- 1. The puritan ethic was being replaced by the hedonist ethic , right there in the .
- 2. Conversion to christ : the making of a christian hedonist .
- 3. It has become standard to distinguish theories of well-being as either hedonist theories , desire theories , or objective list theories .
- 4. The puritan ethic was being replaced by the hedonist ethic , right there in the heartland .
- 5. Lord henry espouses a peculiarly contemporary kind of moderation , indulging his brain but not his body , employing dorian as a proxy hedonist .