Crossword-Solution: HEDONIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Hedonic | a. | Pertaining to pleasure. |
| Hedonic | a. | Of or relating to Hedonism or the Hedonic sect. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “HEDONIC”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Concerning pleasure | 1 answer |
| Given to pleasure | 1 answer |
| Living for pleasure. | 1 answer |
| Pertaining to pleasure. | 1 answer |
| Pertaining to the pursuit of pleasure | 1 answer |
| Pleasure-filled | 1 answer |
| Pleasureful | 1 answer |
| Devoted to pleasure | 2 answers |
| Pleasure-loving | 2 answers |
| Pleasure seeking | 3 answers |
| Pleasure-seeking | 3 answers |
| pleasurable | 59 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with HEDONIC (5)
But the evolutionary process has been clumsy; we are not properly adjusted; we become the victims of ideas fixes; ideas and activities obsess us quite without relation to their hedonic value.
But even if the thing were permitted, the lights are not there; it is only by combining the parent psychology and the hedonic derivative, that the work can be done.
Few individuals go through anything remotely resembling the "hedonic calculus" laid down by Bentham.[3] The individual is not a static being, mathematically considering the amount of pleasure and pain associated with the performance of specific actions.
For the spirit of it all was a spirit of temperance, of moderation, of secure tranquillity--a spirit stoic rather than epicurean, ascetic rather than hedonic, yet generous, spacious, nobly reasonable, giving ample scope for very sincere, if soberly-clad pleasures, and for activities by no means despicable or unmanly, though of a modest, unostentatious sort.
The hedonic qualities, on the other hand, which are physiologically conditioned by much simpler motor counterparts, may of course be transmitted with far greater perfection: it is easier to suggest a pleasure than a thought.
Quotes with HEDONIC (3)
The lesson here is that high expectations can be counter-productive. We probably can do more to affect the quality of our lives by controlling our expectations than we can by doing virtually anything else. The blessing of modest expectations is that they leave room for many experiences to be a pleasant surprise, a hedonic plus. The challenge is to find a way to keep expectations modest, even as actual experiences keep getting better.
How strange it is that the house of these hedonic stalwarts is filled with all the luxuries of life, right from plasma televisions to Swiss bank cheque books. So how will they notice the tonnes of food grains rotting in the northern belt?
Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1957–2024).