hedonic
Example Sentences
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In mice, the medications reduced hedonic feeding, which means eating for enjoyment rather than because the body needs energy.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
Psychologists call this hedonic adaptation: the tendency to absorb improvements into our baseline until they no longer feel like gains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
The BLS also tries to identify price changes by controlling for improvements in product quality for a lot of goods—including computers, internet access, phone plans, and cars—through a process called hedonic price adjustment.
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2026
He explained that to younger people like his students, collecting and renting DVDs is a way “to be able to slow down and get off this hedonic treadmill of ‘where’s my next stimulus coming from.’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
If you're anxious to develop to a true hedonic "swell," hop on a pinnacle apart, Like a monkey on a stick, and your phrases quaintly pick, and then prattle about Art.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 20, 1890 by Various
