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Hedonic   /hədˈɑnɪk/   Listen
Hedonic

adjective
1.
Devoted to pleasure.  Synonyms: epicurean, hedonistic.  "Lives of unending hedonistic delight" , "Epicurean pleasures"






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"Hedonic" Quotes from Famous Books



... Santayana, The Sense of Beauty, p. 104: "All worth leads us back to actual feeling somewhere, or else evaporates into nothing-into a word and a superstition." I cannot but feel that contemporary definitions of value that omit reference to hedonic differences e.g. that of Professor Brown (Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods, vol. II, p. 32): "Value is degree of adequacy of a potentiality to the realization of the effect ...
— Problems of Conduct • Durant Drake



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