Hedonism

Definitions

1. The philosophical belief that happiness, particularly sensual pleasure, is the highest good in life.
   uncountable, usually
2. A general devotion to the pursuit of pleasure.
   countable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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