hedonistic
Devoted to pleasure
Hedonistic describes devotion to pleasure as the chief good in life.
A hedonistic lifestyle prioritizes sensory enjoyment—food, drink, sex, comfort—over duty or discipline: After the divorce, he embraced a hedonistic phase of travel and indulgence.
The word often carries a note of disapproval, implying excess or selfishness, though it can be neutral or even admiring depending on context.
Yielding to desire
- excessSurplus beyond need
- overindulgenceExcessive consumption or enjoyment
- self-gratificationPleasing oneself, often excessively
- debaucheryExtreme indulgence in vices
dissipation · libertinism · profligacy · intemperance · immoderation · sybaritic · voluptuary · dissolution
Pleasing to the body
- eroticSexually stimulating
- carnalRelating to physical urges
- voluptuousSensually full-bodied
- sultryHot, humid, or alluring
intimate · tactile · aromatic · taste · touch · silk · velvet · massage
Showy, abundant prosperity
- sumptuousnessExtreme costly elegance
- lavishnessExcessive richness or abundance
- splendorImpressive, striking beauty
- extravaganceExcessive, wasteful spending
affluence · decadence · grandeur · plushness · palatial · gilded · champagne · caviar
State of relishing something
- gratificationPleasure from satisfying desires
- satisfactionState of fulfilled desires
- delightIntense pleasure or satisfaction
- blissPerfect, serene felicity
euphoria · ecstasy · rapture · elation · exhilaration · joy · merriment · revelry
Pursuit of refined pleasures
- utilitarianismGreatest-happiness moral theory
- egoismDoctrine of self-motivation
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
- aestheticismValuing beauty above ethics
indulgence
Yielding to desire
- excessSurplus beyond need
- overindulgenceExcessive consumption or enjoyment
- self-gratificationPleasing oneself, often excessively
debauchery · dissipation · libertinism · profligacy · intemperance · immoderation · sybaritic · voluptuary · dissolution · depravity
sensuous
Pleasing to the body
- eroticSexually stimulating
- carnalRelating to physical urges
- voluptuousSensually full-bodied
sultry · intimate · tactile · aromatic · taste · touch · silk · velvet · massage · caress
opulence
Showy, abundant prosperity
- sumptuousnessExtreme costly elegance
- lavishnessExcessive richness or abundance
- splendorImpressive, striking beauty
extravagance · affluence · decadence · grandeur · plushness · palatial · gilded · champagne · caviar · yachts
enjoyment
State of relishing something
- gratificationPleasure from satisfying desires
- satisfactionState of fulfilled desires
- delightIntense pleasure or satisfaction
bliss · euphoria · ecstasy · rapture · elation · exhilaration · joy · merriment · revelry · amusement
epicureanism
Pursuit of refined pleasures
- utilitarianismGreatest-happiness moral theory
- egoismDoctrine of self-motivation
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
- indulgenceindulgence, indulge, indulgent, self-indulgent, overindulgence
- philosophical termsSocratic, Kantian, Cartesian, Aristotelian, dialectical
- pleasure seekerspleasure seeker, pleasure seekers, pleasure-seeker, sybarite, sybarites
- consumerismconsumerism, consumers, consumer, shopping, buying
hedonisticascetic
One who renounces indulgence
self-denying · abstemious · abstinent · austere · spartan
hedonisticself-disciplined
Able to control impulses
disciplined · self-controlled · temperate · strict · restrained