different between apolaustic vs hedonistic
apolaustic
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek [Term?] (“to enjoy”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??st?k
Adjective
apolaustic (comparative more apolaustic, superlative most apolaustic)
- (formal) Dedicated to enjoyment.
- 1967 C. P. Snow, Foreword to G. H. Hardy A Mathematician's Apology, Cambridge University Press:
- When Trinity put him up in college—within four years he became a Fellow—there was no ‘Alan St. Aubyn’ apolausticity for him at all.
- 1967 C. P. Snow, Foreword to G. H. Hardy A Mathematician's Apology, Cambridge University Press:
Anagrams
- autopsical
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hedonistic
English
Etymology
hedonist +? -ic
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?h?d?n?st?k/
- (General American) IPA(key): /hid??n?st?k/
Adjective
hedonistic (comparative more hedonistic, superlative most hedonistic)
- Devoted to pleasure; epicurean.
- 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.
- 1999, Jamie Mayerfeld, Suffering and Moral Responsibility, Oxford University Press, USA (?ISBN), page 3:
Related terms
- hedonic
- hedonism
- hedonist
- hedonistically
Translations
Romanian
Etymology
From French hédonistique
Adjective
hedonistic m or n (feminine singular hedonistic?, masculine plural hedonistici, feminine and neuter plural hedonistice)
- hedonistic
Declension
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