hedonist
/ˈhɛd(ə)nɪst/ /ˈhɛdənɪst/ /ˈhiːd(ə)nɪst
/ /ˈhiːdənɪst/noun
A person who believes that the pursuit of pleasure is the most important thing in life; a pleasure-seeker: she was living the life of a committed hedonist...
- We are a people who in equal parts are adventurers, skilled craftspeople, hedonists, sensualists, survivalists, and environmentalists.
- A libertine is a hedonist, a devotee of personal pleasure, whereas a libertarian is one who defends the libertine and his lifestyle against the heavy hand of government.
- With the political forecast comparatively sunny recently, things are visibly on the up - the grand old city centre cleaned out and dressed up to receive the growing surge of investors, visitors and weekending hedonists.
Synonyms
sybarite, sensualist, voluptuary, pleasure seeker, pleasure lover;
libertine, playboy, debauchee, loose-liver;
epicure, gastronome, gourmand;
French bon viveur, bon vivant
- short-tailed vole
- short temper
- short-tempered
- short tennis
- short-term
- short-termer
- short-termism
- short-term memory
- short time
- short-timer
- short title
- short ton
- short-track
- short trousers
- short view
- short waist
- short-waisted
- short wave
- short weight
- short-winded
- shorty
- Shoshone
- Shoshonean
- Shostakovich, Dmitri
- shot