HEDONISM Synonyms

• a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction

• something or someone that provides a source of happiness

• give pleasure to or be pleasing to

• take delight in

• hold spellbound

• the pleasure felt when having a good time

• act of receiving pleasure from something

• (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property

• a quantity much larger than is needed

• immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits

• the state of being more than full

• excessive indulgence

• more than is needed, desired, or required

• state of being gratified or satisfied

• the act or an instance of satisfying

• an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires

• a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone

• the act of indulging or gratifying a desire

• foolish or senseless behavior

• the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution

• something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity

• the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive

• wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living

• a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience

• something or someone that provides a source of happiness

• a formal expression

• an activity that affords enjoyment

• sexual gratification

• concern for your own interests and welfare

• indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures

• the act of satisfying your own desires and giving yourself pleasure

• an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires

• excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence

• taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others

• interested only in yourself

• desire for sensual pleasures

• (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good