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Hedonic

Hedonic \He*don"ic\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? pleasure, ? sweet, pleasant.]

  1. Pertaining to pleasure.

  2. Of or relating to Hedonism or the Hedonic sect.

    Hedonic sect a sect that placed the highest good in the gratification of the senses, -- called also Cyrenaic sect, (which see), and School of Aristippus.

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hedonic

a. 1 Of or relating to pleasure 2 Pursuing pleasure in a devotion manner 3 Of or relating to the hedonists or to hedonism

WordNet
hedonic

adj. devoted to pleasure; "a hedonic thrill"; "lives of unending hedonistic delight"; "epicurean pleasures" [syn: hedonistic, epicurean]

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Usage examples of "hedonic".

Climax of dance alone is unpleasant, but in total effect the result is pleasant by hedonic contrast.

The emergence of Hedonic Self-oriented Consumerism as Dom-Species is now projected for 1976, local time.

My informants report a feeling of gentleness, an expectation of change, an hedonic hope reminiscent in many ways of those tender years in the early sixties.

Stigwood created a mythos of cocky, arrogant, happy, hedonic youth strutting into a successful future.

The millions of hedonic agents who lived and worked in these Eden Parks hosted the rest of the world, who came ready to learn the pleasures and freedoms of Intelligent Self-Actualization.

Frontal Lobe Sun Belt Universities you will find the young of the Pre-Dom Species obsessed with disciplined Self-Actualized Hedonic Freedom.

Somatic reward, in-human soft-skin-bliss, hip sophistication, erotic movement, hedonic consumption.

Observe any group of children at play and you can forecast those who are robot-templated by DNA to play hedonic roles.

We do not have a formal, precise language to classify and describe the various pleasure-roles and hedonic processes.

If words are invented for these myriad hedonic delights, then people will talk about them and enjoy them -- a turn of events which Christian-Marxist hive establishments could not tolerate.

It is the collapse of all motivations into flatland terms and hedonic happiness that I am, of course, criticizing.