Definitions for hedonism

hedonism he·don·ism

Spelling: [heed-n-iz-uh m]
IPA: /ˈhid nˌɪz əm/

Hedonism is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 355 anagrams from letters in hedonism (dehimnos).

Definitions for hedonism

noun

  1. the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good.
  2. devotion to pleasure as a way of life:

Origin of hedonism

1855-60; Greek hēdon(ḗ) pleasure + -ism

Examples for hedonism

Georgia Congressman Bob Barr warned that “the flames of hedonism . . . are licking at the very foundations of our society.”

After a night of hedonism, head out into Louisiana's Cajun Country.

But the pleasures of vengeance and hedonism prove a dead end for Wanda.

His life of hedonism suddenly seems empty when he begins to fall in love with Grace.

And no hedonism, no theory of rights, could supply an operating rule for conduct.

His own view is that the Austrians are not essentially bound up with hedonism.

Veblen has made it perfectly clear that particular matters of theory are affected by the presupposition of hedonism.

Honora's amazement at her cousin's hedonism gave way to contempt for it.

The sonnets on the Days breathe the same quaint medieval hedonism.

Those avatars of hedonism, The Europeans, are aghast at discovering that the average American vacation lasts for just 4.1 days.

Word Value for hedonism
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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