hedonic
Example Sentences
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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
Psychologists differentiate between two aspects of happiness: "hedonic wellbeing," related to emotional experiences, and "eudemonic wellbeing," which concerns meaning and purpose in life.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024
The researchers believe that this proposed effect, which they called "hedonic compensation," likely applies to other activities beyond eating.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2024
Ahrens said that what I had described was hedonic happiness: happiness from pleasure.
From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2023
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.