different between eudaemonic vs hedonistic

English

Alternative forms

• eudemonic
• eudæmonic

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????????? (eudaimonikós), from ?????????? (eudaimonía, “happiness”), from ???????? (eudaím?n, “fortunate, happy”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ju?d??m?n?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ju???m?n?k/

Adjective

eudaemonic

1. Of or pertaining to a eudaemon.
2. That produces satisfied happiness and well-being.
   • 1993, edited by Janina Frentzel-Zagórska, From a One-Party State to Democracy: Transition in Eastern Europe, ?ISBN, page 23:

     During the 1960s and 1970s, many communist leaderships sought to legitimate their rule increasingly through the eudaemonic mode; the various economic reforms in the USSR and Eastern Europe at the time constituted the major symbol of this.

   • 2017 January 28, Teal Burrow, Why am I here?, New Scientist, Issue 3110, page 32,

     In 2013, Cole examined the influence of well-being instead. He focused on two types: hedonic, from pleasure and rewards, and eudaemonic, from having a purpose beyond self-gratification.

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)

1. 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.

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)

1. hedonistic

Declension