hedonistic

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hedonistic

/ˈhɛdənɪstɪk/ UK
/hidəˈnɪstɪk/ US

adjective more hedonistic · most hedonistic

Devoted to pleasure. 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.
Similar: decadent, sybaritic, Babylonian, epicureal, epicurean, epicureous, epicurish, hedonic, hedonistic, intemperate, lotus-eating, luxurious

Opposite: abstemious, antihedonistic, ascetic, austere, nondecadent, nonhedonic, nonhedonistic, puritanical, self-abnegatory, undecadent, unepicurean, unhedonistic, unluxurious, unsinful

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adjective

Opposite: abstemious, antihedonistic, ascetic, austere, nondecadent, nonhedonic, nonhedonistic, puritanical, self-abnegatory, undecadent, unepicurean, unhedonistic, unluxurious, unsinful

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adj devoted to pleasure

Español	hedonista, hedonístico
Français	hédoniste
Deutsch	hedonistisch, genusssüchtig
Italiano	edonistico
Ελληνικά	ηδονιστικός idonistikós
Română	hedonistic
Русский	гедонисти́ческий gedonistíčeskij
Tiếng Việt	khoái lạc, phóng đãng

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@misc{hedonistic_2026,
  title = {hedonistic},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hedonistic},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}