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Adjective

hedonistic (comparative more hedonistic, superlative most hedonistic)

  • Devoted to pleasure
    • ✤ Synonyms: decadent, sybaritic; see also Thesaurus: hedonistic
    • ✤ Among philosophers, attention to suffering has been a casualty of a long series of attacks on hedonistic utilitarianism—the doctrine that people are morally required to maximize the total surplus of happiness over suffering.1
    • ✤ He refers to the danger of leading our lives on a hedonistic treadmill, seeking more accomplishments and trying to get more things and more money, leading eventually to ever increasing expectations.2

Etymology

From hedonist + -ic.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /ˈhɛdənɪstɪk/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • (General American) IPA: /hidəˈnɪstɪk/

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

  1. 1999, Jamie Mayerfeld, Suffering and Moral Responsibility, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 3: ↩

  2. 2003, Paul Pearsall, The Beethoven Factor, Hampton Roads Publishing, →ISBN: ↩

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