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Hedonistic

//hidəˈnɪstɪk// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    devoted to pleasure wordnet

Etymology

From hedonist + -ic.

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