HEDONIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hedonic mean? 

• HEDONIC (adjective)
  The adjective HEDONIC has 1 sense:

1. devoted to pleasure

  Familiarity information: HEDONIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEDONIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Devoted to pleasure

Synonyms:

epicurean; hedonic; hedonistic

Context example:

epicurean pleasures

Similar:

indulgent (characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone)

Derivation:

hedonism (an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good)

hedonism (the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle)

 Context examples 

This is when eCB levels were at their highest, suggesting that eCBs were driving hedonic, or pleasurable, eating.

(Molecular ties between lack of sleep and weight gain, NIH)