Medical

hedonist

Also found in: Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

hedonist

A person who dedicates a significant portion of his or her time to the pursuit of physical and sensual pleasures.
Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
Mentioned in
References in periodicals archive
It seems hard to argue on hedonist grounds against those who argue that the institution of marriage needs to be reformed (or even abolished).
Even though the survey was anonymous, the potential discomfort in a female viewing herself as a hedonist may have influenced her responses.
Among the questions they ask are whether a tourist is a secular pilgrim or a hedonist in search of pleasure, whether tourists travel to discover the "self" or to search for the "other," whether tourism consumes places, whether the concept of sustainability is Utopian: ideally perfect but hard to practice, and knowledge management in tourism: whether the stakeholders are research-averse.
21 & over Film4 9PM PREMIERE Before his break-out performance in Whiplash, Miles Teller played a young hedonist determined that his best mate should celebrate his 21st birthday in style before a college interview.
We just had to stand in front of a camera in the Balearic sunshine and get drunk, that's pretty much all we had to do!" One of the tracks on the new album is called Sleep When You're Dead - also the name of Prichard's notorious Ibiza boat parties, and an ode to the chief hedonist himself.
New York, NY, December 10, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Today, Pure Hedonist Omnimedia President and Editorial Director Letitia Elizabeth announced the launch of Lillie, a bi-monthly hybrid fashion + food magazine for a new class of woman who cares deeply about the impact her personal style choices have on the environment.
Among the topics are avant-garde nostalgia and hedonist renewal, the social theory of Norbert Elias and the question of the nonhuman world, Merleau-Ponty's ecophenomenology, the ecological Irigaray, and cybernetics and social systems theory.
Yet, behind his facade of peace, the Marxist pop guru was in reality a hedonist who helped create a society that has no sense of the horror of personal sin, no sense of the virtue of modesty and no sense of outrage at the evils represented by rock music and other iniquities in our popular culture.
The evidence for Hutcheson as a qualitative hedonist is strong and striking.
He is a Tory hedonist, a Thatcherite libertarian, a man with considerable brains and ambition, perhaps the most brilliant journalist of his generation.
Copyright © 2003-2025 Farlex, Inc Disclaimer
All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.