Hedonism

//ˈhɛdənɪzəm// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The philosophical belief that happiness, particularly sensual pleasure, is the highest good in life. uncountable, usually

    "It began with his shrugging off of both family and faith and taking the Amtrak Vermonter out of Penn Station to major in minor hedonism and minor in the major modernists at a hippie college in the great Jewless north."

  2. 2
    an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good wordnet
  3. 3
    A general devotion to the pursuit of pleasure. countable, usually
  4. 4
    the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle wordnet

Etymology

First attested 1856: from Ancient Greek ἡδονή (hēdonḗ, “pleasure”) + -ism.

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