Crossword-Solution: HEDONISM 8 letters, 28 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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HEDONISM anagram DEMONISH, SONDHEIM

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the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle 1 answer
doctrine that pleasure is the most important thing in life 1 answer
Taking pleasure in pleasure 1 answer
Self-indulgent pursuit of pleasure 1 answer
Pursuit of pleasure 1 answer
Pleasure-seeker's doctrine 1 answer
Philosophy of Epicurus 1 answer
PLEASURE as the chief good or the proper aim 1 answer
Epicurean doctrine 1 answer
Doctrine that pleasure is the highest good 1 answer
Devotion to pleasure 1 answer
BEHAVIOUR based on pleasure as the chief good or the proper aim 1 answer
Pleasure principle 2 answers
Pleasure-seeking 3 answers
Pleasure seeking 3 answers
ANIMALISM 7 answers
Epicureanism 10 answers
A MAN DEVOTED TO THE PURSUIT OF PLEASURE 10 answers
AN ETHICAL SYSTEM THAT EVALUATES THE PURSUIT OF PLEASURE AS THE HIGHEST GOOD 11 answers
FAST living 17 answers
life of the senses 21 answers
materialism 25 answers
materiality 34 answers
high living 41 answers
Gusto 49 answers
full life 50 answers
good cheer 67 answers
Doctrine 72 answers
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with HEDONISM (5)

Two theories of hedonism: (1) Cyaxares' "Economise the greatest joy when you have got it," and by contrast (2) Cyrus' roaming from joy to joy.
Cyropaedia Xenophon 2000
There is a hedonistic test, but the higher hedonism prevails against the lower: ignoble and impolitic to sit here feasting while they are fighting, and we don't even know how it fares with them, our allies.
Cyropaedia Xenophon 2000
With the possibility of some such hazard as this, in thought or even in practice—that it might be, though refining, or tonic even, in the case of those strong and in health, yet, as Pascal says of the kindly and temperate wisdom of Montaigne, “pernicious for those who have any natural tendency to impiety or vice,” the line of reflection traced out above, was fairly chargeable.—Not, however, with “hedonism” and its supposed consequences.
Marius the Epicurean, Walter Horatio Pater 2001
Words like “hedonism”— terms of large and vague comprehension—above all when used for a purpose avowedly controversial, have ever been the worst examples of what are called “question-begging terms;” and in that late age in which Marius lived, amid the dust of so many centuries of philosophical debate, the air was full of them.
Marius the Epicurean, Walter Horatio Pater 2001
Really, to the phase of reflection through which Marius was then passing, the charge of “hedonism,” whatever its true weight might be, was not properly applicable at all.
Marius the Epicurean, Walter Horatio Pater 2001

Quotes with HEDONISM (3)

We in our age are faced with a strange paradox. Never before have we had so much information in bits and pieces flooded upon us by radio and television and satellite, yet never before have we had so little inner certainty about our own being. The more objective truth increases, the more our inner certitude decreases. Our fantastically increased technical power, and each forward step in technology is experienced by many as a new push toward our possible annihilation. Nietzsche…
Rollo May The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology
... organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all formerly Christian countries.
Richard Rohr Breathing Underwater: Spirituality and the 12 Steps
What is the difference between freedom and hedonism? Between freedom and insanity?
Karen Essex Pharaoh
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 12 times in crossword archives (1980–2025).