Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the Cyrenaic school of ancient Greek philosophers.
- n. One who advocates or acts upon the theory of hedonism; one who regards pleasure as the chief good.
Wiktionary
- n. someone devoted to hedonism
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who believes in hedonism.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἡδονή (hēdonē, "pleasure") + -ist. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“You could be heavily reward dependent, indifferent to novelty, and mildly harm avoidant—a stay-at-home hedonist, in other words.”
“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.”
“The body of a hedonist is the coffin of a dead soul and there's no soul more dead than one which died young.”
“He is perhaps the only perfectly frank and unmitigated "hedonist" which European literature at this hour offers.”
“Longworth, a self-proclaimed "hedonist," used to say.”
“Prof. Nordhaus is respectful toward both national economic accounting and hedonic psychology (from the Greek for pleasure, as in "hedonist").”
“Grab a drink and reconnect with your hedonist roots.”
The Wall Street Journal: In Search of a Billionaire's Paradise
“Certainly, one might adduce a lot from the activities of her friend and fellow hedonist, who also had similar rooms: her brother-in-law, the Comte d'Artois later King Charles X, a known sensualist and libertine.”
The Wall Street Journal: At the Frick, Dreams of Ottoman Treasures
“British occultist, writer, scholar, hedonist, and drug addict—generally considered wicked and depraved.”
“An unconscious hedonist, utterly unmoral and materialistic, he sought the greatest possible happiness for himself, and found it in drink.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hedonist’.
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GRE 2014
abate, abdicate, abase, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Muse's tacet ,to learn
Music brings silence's to raging thoughts and temperament , calm, as it is our object of definite purpose.
tacet, cadence, tempo, treble clef, penultimate, lexicon, origin, orchestra, kantele, magus, eros, coalesce and 248 more...
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Dramatic Nouns
Nouns to be used as descriptions while writing stories
night owl, early bird, hedonist, ascetic, derelict, explorer, radical, pity friend, cupid, truant, caretaker, guardian and 120 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 567 more...
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Food--and our love for it!
words involving food and enjoying food
refection, gourmand, hedonist, foodie, gustation, gustatory, pescatarian, piscatory, postprandial, abligurition, haslet, epicurean and 5 more...
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list01
I HEART MYSELF!!!!!!!!!!
clitoridectomy, pneumonoultramicr..., deipnosophist, zenana, quadragintesimal, lampadedromy, fundus, karyokinesis, machicolation, plasmapherisis, entomophagous, oxyopia and 36 more...
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identifiers
species, sex, age bracket, occupation, hobby .. etc.
man, woman, human being, student, zombie, artist, octopus, race driver, scientist, algorithmist, mathematician, child and 59 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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polymorph's Words
pornerastic, yeaux, enantiadromia, synchronicity, transubstantiation, sensimilla, slough, scaphism, symbiosis, prolix, orgiastic, cryptogamic and 245 more...
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Vocab from High School
Words that I found in an old notebook.
affinity, aggrandizement, altruistic, ameliorate, apochryphal, aversion, blithe, bombastic, cajole, callous, capitulate, capricious and 178 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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