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EPICURISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does epicurism mean?
• EPICURISM (noun)
The noun EPICURISM has 1 sense:
1. the disposition and habits of an epicure
Familiarity information: EPICURISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The disposition and habits of an epicure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("epicurism" is a kind of...):
disposition; temperament (your usual mood)
Context examples
She was nice only from natural delicacy, but he had been brought up in a school of luxury and epicurism.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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