Hedonism vs Sybarite - What's the difference?
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(ethics) The belief that pleasure or happiness is the highest good in life. Some hedonists, such as the Epicureans, have insisted that pleasure of the entire mind, not just pleasure of the senses, is the highest good.
A general devotion to the pursuit of pleasure.
A person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary.
* 1969 , Victor Ernest Watts (translator), (author), The (Consolation of Philosophy) , (Penguin Books), book III, chapter iv, page 87:
* 2011 December 16th, William Grimes, “Obituary of Christopher Hitchens” in the New York Times :
As nouns the difference between hedonism and sybarite
is that hedonism is the belief that pleasure or happiness is the highest good in life. Some hedonists, such as the Epicureans, have insisted that pleasure of the entire mind, not just pleasure of the senses, is the highest good while sybarite is a person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary.hedonism
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(hedonism)Noun
(en-noun)Antonyms
* asceticismExternal links
* * English words suffixed with -ismsybarite
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(en noun)- Although the proud lord clothed himself // In purple robes and gem-stones white, // Yet Nero grew to all men’s hate // A wild and cruel sybarite .
- Thus began a dual career as political agitator and upper-crust sybarite . He arranged a packed schedule of antiwar demonstrations by day and Champagne-flooded parties with Oxford’s elite at night.
