hedonistic

English

From hedonist +‎ -ic.

hedonistic (comparative more hedonistic, superlative most hedonistic)

Devoted to pleasure
- 1999, Jamie Mayerfeld, Suffering and Moral Responsibility, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 3:
  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.
- 2003, Paul Pearsall, The Beethoven Factor, Hampton Roads Publishing, →ISBN:
  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.

libertine (hedonistic with regard to sex), gluttonous (hedonistic with regard to food), Epicurean, epicurean, Cyrenaic, Cyrenian, Aristippan, Aristippian (philosophical, chiefly historical)

devoted to pleasure

hedonistic m or n (feminine singular hedonistică, masculine plural hedonistici, feminine and neuter plural hedonistice)

		masculine	feminine	masculine	neuter
		singular		plural
nominative- accusative	indefinite	hedonistic	hedonistică	hedonistici	hedonistice
nominative- accusative	definite	hedonisticul	hedonistica	hedonisticii	hedonisticele
genitive- dative	indefinite	hedonistic	hedonistice	hedonistici	hedonistice
genitive- dative	definite	hedonisticului	hedonisticei	hedonisticilor	hedonisticelor