[ 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
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How To Use hedonism In A Sentence

  • 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
  • Besides the mother/daughter role reversal, much of the show's comedy derived from women indulging in unashamed decadence, hedonism and outrageous, unladylike behaviour in the absence of men.
  • Hedonism: There's nothing like a good shit happening.
  • To her it was a ‘wonderful’ time that allowed the full talents of creative young people to flower, and claims of hedonism are a gross exaggeration.
  • This strange combination of academic success and off-duty hedonism continued throughout high school. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Cyrenaics are notable mainly for their empiricist and skeptical epistemology and their sensualist hedonism.
  • And as for the squire in the moated country house, or the headmaster … It seems to me that Upward took a conscious decision to rid himself of this hedonism and to become a fiction writer with a mission. The Captive Mind
  • Perhaps because the man himself, at 80, is filled with life, with a self-disciplined hedonism and with a passionate belief in the importance of his craft. A Design Life Force
  • A sip conjures visions of chocolateespresso cake topped with whipped cream - hedonism in a bottle.
  • Is it possible that shampooing sounds far more agreeable than scrubbing because the word hovered between ideas of health and hedonism when it first entered English? The English Is Coming!
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