hedonic

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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

The hedonic qualities, on the other hand, which are physiologically conditioned by much simpler motor counterparts, may of course be transmitted with far greater perfection: it is easier to suggest a pleasure than a thought.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra