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Hedonic   Listen
adjective
Hedonic  adj.  
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" 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



Words linked to "Hedonic" :   hedonistic, indulgent



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