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Definition of Hedonic
1. Adjective. Devoted to pleasure. "Epicurean pleasures"
Similar to: Indulgent
Derivative terms: Epicure, Epicurean, Hedonism, Hedonism, Hedonism, Hedonism
Definition of Hedonic
1. a. Pertaining to pleasure.
Definition of Hedonic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to pleasure ¹
2. Adjective. Pursuing pleasure in a devoted manner ¹
3. Adjective. Of or relating to the hedonists or to hedonism ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hedonic
1. pertaining to pleasure [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hedonic
Literary usage of Hedonic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pure Economics by Maffeo Pantaleoni (1898)
"II OF THE hedonic PRINCIPLE etc. As in most cases we know next to nothing of the
rapidity with which real hedonic curves decline, or of their particular ..."
2. The Elements of Scientific Psychology by Knight Dunlap (1922)
"hedonic feeling. In the discussions of feeling in the past, ... For this reason,
the term "hedonic" has occasionally been applied to all feeling, ..."
3. Construction Price Indices: Sources and Methods by (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope, Statistics Directorate (1997)
"hedonic method: Regression techniques may he used to construct hedonic indices
to measure purchasers' preferences for the different characteristics of ..."
4. Deconstructing the Computer: Report of a Symposium by Dale Weldeau Jorgenson, Charles W. Wessner (2005)
"Even aside from the adequacy of the variables in hedonic functions for PCs, ...
The same distinction has also been discussed in the hedonic literature under ..."
5. Valuation: Its Nature and Laws, Being an Introduction to the General Theory by Wilbur Marshall Urban (1909)
"... the intension and extension (depth and breadth in the personality) may vary
independently of the intensity and multiplicity of the hedonic redundancies, ..."
6. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"But questions arise now as to the hedonic plan on which morality as an ...
If they are not exempt, is this because they ought to adopt the hedonic plan ? ..."
7. The Ground and Goal of Human Life by Charles Gray Shaw (1919)
"THE hedonic SYNTHESIS It must ever be borne in mind that modern thought, with
its separation of thought and thing, of individual and society, has constantly ..."
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