Epicureanism

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Epicureanism \Ep`i*cu*re"an*ism\, n.
     Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or
     belief of Epicurus.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  epicureanism
       n : a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient
           Greek philosophers

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "epicureanism":
     Cyrenaic hedonism, Cyrenaicism, aesthetics, appetite,
     appetitiveness, artistic taste, connoisseurship, dilettantism,
     epicurism, ethical hedonism, eudaemonism, expertise, expertism,
     friandise, gastronomics, gastronomy, gourmandise, hedonic calculus,
     hedonics, hedonism, luxuriousness, luxury, pleasure principle,
     pleasure-loving, pleasure-seeking, psychological hedonism,
     sensualism, sensuality, sensualness, sybaritism, unchastity, virtu,
     virtuosity, voluptuousness