Crossword-Solution: EPICUREANISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Epicureanism | n. | Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “EPICUREANISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophers | 1 answer |
| hedonism | 7 answers |
| gourmandise | 8 answers |
| good eating | 10 answers |
| Epicureanism | 10 answers |
| Gastronomy | 10 answers |
| good living | 15 answers |
| Epicure | 16 answers |
| delectation | 17 answers |
| Gluttony | 21 answers |
| high living | 41 answers |
| Gusto | 49 answers |
| full life | 50 answers |
| gratification | 65 answers |
| good cheer | 67 answers |
| fulfilment | 69 answers |
| Enjoyment | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EPICUREANISM (5)
Either mere animal blindness, sucking the honey without seeing the dragon or the mice,—“and from such a way,” he says, “I can learn nothing, after what I now know;” or reflective epicureanism, snatching what it can while the day lasts,—which is only a more deliberate sort of stupefaction than the first; or manly suicide; or seeing the mice and dragon and yet weakly and plaintively clinging to the bush of life.
Have you ever reflected on the actual meaning of the manners and customs and morals of England? Is it not the deification of matter? a well-defined, carefully considered Epicureanism, judiciously applied? No matter what may be said against the statement, England is materialist,--possibly she does not know it herself.
And the indifference of Epicureanism and unbelief is in two ways the parent of superstition, partly because it permits, and also because it creates, a necessity for its development in religious and enthusiastic temperaments.
Nevertheless, that phase of Epicureanism which can be studied in Lucretius, and especially in Cicero, is quite sufficient to make men familiar with a godless universe.
For the feeling which, next to solicitude for his own comfort and repose, seems to have had the greatest influence on his public conduct, was his dislike of the Puritans; a dislike which sprang, not from bigotry, but from Epicureanism.