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Definitions: Hedonism |
HedonismNoun1. The pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle. 2. An ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Hedonism The doctrine of Aristippus, that pleasure or happiness is the chief good and chief end of man (Greek, hedone, pleasure). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Epicureanism is the best-known form of ancient hedonism. Epicurus identified pleasure with tranquility, and emphasized the "reduce desire" aspects over the "find lots of hot babes" aspects.
The utilitarianism of John Stuart Mill is sometimes classified as a type of hedonism, since it judges the rightness of actions from the happiness that they lead to, and happiness is identified with pleasure. This is, note, a selfless hedonism; whereas Epicurus recommends doing whatever makes you happiest, Mill would have you do whatever makes everyone happiest.
Some of Sigmund Freud's theories of human motivation have been called psychological hedonism; his "life instinct" turns out to be the (startling!) observation that people pursue pleasure. But he muddies up the waters with various less plausible mechanisms, such as the "death instinct".
See also: evil, goodness, hedonistic imperative, millennialism, Paradox of hedonism, psychological hedonism
Also see: Hedonism ResortsExternal Links
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hedonism."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cheerfulness | Optimism; (hopefulness); self complacency; hedonics, hedonism. |
Physical Pleasure | Noun: pleasure; physical pleasure, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure; bodily enjoyment, animal gratification, hedonism, sensuality; luxuriousness. Adjective: dissipation, round of pleasure, titillation, gusto, creature comforts, comfort, ease; pillow. (support); luxury, lap of luxury; purple and fine linen; bed of downs, bed of roses; velvet, clover; cup of Circe. (intemperance). |
Pleasure | Happiness, felicity, bliss; beatitude, beautification; enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy; summum bonum; paradise, elysium; ( heaven); third heaven, seventh heaven, cloud nine; unalloyed happiness; hedonics, hedonism. |
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Crosswords: Hedonism |
| English words defined with "hedonism": epicureanism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hedonism": Aristippos. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Hedonism" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (hedonism), Swedish (hedonism). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Girls of Hedonism (2000) Hunks In Hedonism (1995) | |
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| "Hedonism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hedonism" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 61 | 43,149 |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hedonism | 2,614 |
hedonism ii | 439 |
hedonism iii | 314 |
hedonism resort | 261 |
hedonism picture | 225 |
jamaica hedonism | 139 |
hedonism 3 | 126 |
hedonism pic | 125 |
hedonism photo | 119 |
hedonism vacation | 53 |
club hedonism | 44 |
hedonism ii picture | 26 |
hedonism iii photo | 26 |
hedonism iii picture | 24 |
hedonism swinger | 24 |
hedonism trip report | 16 |
hedonism review | 16 |
hedonism 111 | 16 |
hedonism ii photo | 15 |
hedonism resort jamaica | 15 |
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| Language | Translations for "hedonism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | hedonizëm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مذهب المتعة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хедонизъм. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 享乐主义. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hedonismus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | genotzucht. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | ĝuamo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فلسفه خوشی پرستی وتمتع ازلذایذدنیا. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | hédonisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hedonismus, genusssucht, Genußsucht, der Hedonismus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ηδονισμόσ (sensualism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hedonizmus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | héadónachas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | edonismo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 享楽主義 (epicureanism), ヘッディング開始 (chemical ooze, head, head coach, head piece, head sliding, head up, head voice, headgear, headhunter, head-hunting, heading, headlight, headlock, headphone, headspin, heavy, heavy metal, heavy smoker, hetero, heterodox, heterogeneous, heterosis, recruiting professionals from other companies, slime, sludge, start of heading), 快楽説 , 快楽主義 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ヘドニズ , きょうらくしゅぎ (epicureanism), かいらくしゅぎ, かいらくせつ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | hedonisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edonismhay pasta (blotter, body, brief bag, briefcase, dough, etc, pâté, paste, portfolio, portfoliofor drawings, pulp, stock, stuff, suitcase, wadding). (various references) hedonism. (various references) гедонизм. (various references) hedonizam. (various references) hedonismo. (various references) hedonism. (various references) ทฤษฎีที่เชื่อว่าความสุขสบายหรือความเพลิ"เพลินเป็นยอ"ปรารถนาที่สุ". (various references) hedonizm, hazcılık. (various references) гедонізм, житт"любство. (various references) chủ nghĩa khoái lạc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "hedonism": hedonisms. (additional references) | |
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"Hedonism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Habonim, headonism, hedenism, hedoism, hedonis, hedonisam, hedonisim, hedonisme, hedonisum, hedonsim, hedunizm, hegonism, hendoism, hendonism, Heronim, heydonism. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hedonism" (pronounced hē"duni'zum) |
| 6 | -u n i' z u m | abolitionism, agrarianism, anachronism, antagonism, authoritarianism, chauvinism, communism, creationism, determinism, egalitarianism, expansionism, expressionism, feminism, hooliganism, humanism, illusionism, impressionism, interventionism, isolationism, lesbianism, mechanism, microorganism, obstructionism, organism, paganism, parkinsonism, perfectionism, protectionism, puritanism, republicanism, revisionism, satanism, sectarianism, tokenism, totalitarianism, unionism, vegetarianism. |
| 5 | -n i' z u m | modernism, monism, opportunism. |
| 4 | -i' z u m | absenteeism, absolutism, activism, adventurism, alcoholism, altruism, amateurism, aneurism, animism, aphorism, astigmatism, atavism, atheism, autism, baptism, barbarism, bilingualism, bolshevism, boosterism, botulism, cannibalism, capitalism, catechism, centralism, classicism, collectivism, colonialism, commercialism, conservatism, consumerism, corporatism, counterterrorism, criticism, cronyism, cubism, cynicism, dandyism, defeatism, deism, despotism, diamagnetism, diastrophism, dimorphism, dogmatism, Druidism, dualism, dwarfism, dynamism, egoism, egotism, electromagnetism, elitism, embolism, emotionalism, empiricism, entrepreneurialism, environmentalism, ergotism, eroticism, escapism, ethnocentrism, euphemism, evangelism, extremism, factionalism, fanaticism, fascism, fatalism, favoritism, federalism, ferromagnetism, fetishism, feudalism, formalism, fundamentalism, futurism, geotropism, gnosticism, gradualism, helotism, heroism, hypnotism, idealism, imperialism, incrementalism, individualism, intellectualism, internationalism, Irredentism, isomorphism, jingoism, journalism, leftism, legalism, liberalism, lyricism, magnetism, mannerism, masochism, materialism, mercantilism, mesmerism, metabolism, methodism, militarism, minimalism, monasticism, monetarism, monotheism, moralism, multiculturalism, multilateralism, mutualism, mysticism, narcissism, nationalism, nativism, naturalism, negativism, nepotism, neutralism, nihilism, optimism, ostracism, overoptimism, pacifism, parallelism, parochialism, pastoralism, paternalism, patriotism, pessimism, pharisaism, pietism, plagiarism, pluralism, polymorphism, polytheism, populism, positivism, pragmatism, professionalism, provincialism, racialism, racism, radicalism, realism, recidivism, relativism, rheumatism, romanticism, sadism, secularism, sensationalism, separatism, sexism, skepticism, socialism, statism, stoicism, supernaturalism, surrealism, symbolism, synergism, territorialism, terrorism, theism, tourism, truism, vandalism, vigilantism, voluntarism, volunteerism, voyeurism. |
| 3 | -z u m | bosom, careerism, chasm, cytoplasm, enthusiasm, iconoclasm, ism, microcosm, neoplasm, orgasm, phantasm, prism, sarcasm, schism, spasm. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: monished. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-m-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: domines, emodins, hoidens, homines, misdone. | |
-2 letters: demons, denims, domine, donsie, emodin, eonism, hemins, hemoid, hoiden, hoised, honied, inmesh, modish, mondes, monied, monies, monish, moshed, noised, noshed, onside, shined. | |
-3 letters: deism, demon, demos, denim, dimes, dines, disme, domes, eidos, eosin, hemin, hides, hinds, hoise, homed, homes, honed, hones, hosed, hosen, mends, meson, miens, minds, mined, mines, misdo, modes, monde, monie, nides, nodes, noise, nomes, nosed, omens, shend, shied, shine, shoed, shone, snide, sonde. | |
-4 letters: demo, deni, dens, dies, dime, dims, dine, dins, dish, does, dome, doms, done, dons, dose, edhs, ends, eons, hems, hens, hide, hied, hies, hind, hins, hisn, hods, hoed, hoes, home, hone, hons, hose, idem, ides, ions, mend, meno, mesh, mhos, mids, mien, mind, mine, mise, miso, mode, modi, mods, mons, mosh, nide, nims, node, nodi, nods, noes, nome, noms, nose, nosh, odes, ohed, ohms, omen, ones, semi, send, shed, shim, shin, shmo, shod, shoe, side, sine, sinh, sned, some, sone. | |
-5 letters: den, die, dim, din, dis, doe, dom, don, dos, edh, eds, ems, end, ens, eon, hem, hen, hes, hid, hie, him, hin, his, hod, hoe, hon, ids, ins, ion, ism, med, men, mho, mid, mis, mod, mon, mos, nim, nod, noh, nom, nos, ode, ods, oes, ohm, ohs, oms, one, ons, ose, sei, sen, she, sim, sin, sod, som, son. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-m-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: demijohns, hedonisms, hymnodies. | |
+2 letters: admonished, admonisher, admonishes, harmonised, modishness, rhodamines. | |
+3 letters: admonishers, demolishing, echinoderms, hemosiderin, homogenised, maidenhoods, methodising, prehominids, premonished. | |
+4 letters: admonishment, chondriosome, demolishment, disharmonies, disharmonize, endomorphies, endomorphism, endothermies, ethionamides, hemodynamics, hemosiderins, homesteading, hydromancies, malnourished, modishnesses. | |
+5 letters: admonishments, chondriosomes, commandership, demolishments, diathermanous, disharmonized, disharmonizes, dysmenorrheic, endomorphisms, endotheliomas, hemodilutions, indomethacins, rhabdomancies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 64 6F 6E 69 73 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100100 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e d o n i s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0064 006F 006E 0069 0073 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4271708180758579 |
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