pleasure-seeking
Pursuing sensory gratification
Pleasure-seeking describes the pursuit of enjoyment and gratification, often with a connotation of excess or self-indulgence.
A pleasure-seeking lifestyle prioritizes sensory delights and immediate satisfaction over duty or long-term goals.
The term can be neutral or mildly disapproving depending on context: pleasure-seeking tourists suggests harmless vacation fun, while pleasure-seeking hedonists implies something more reckless.
Yielding to desire
- gratificationPleasure from satisfying desires
- hedonistSeeker of sensual satisfaction
- self-indulgenceExcessive yielding to desires
- decadenceMoral decline through excess
epicurean · sybarite · libertine · voluptuary · sensualist · excess · immoderation · debauchery
Of bodily pleasure
- tactileOf the touching sense
- tasteFlavor perception ability
- appetiteDesire for food
- aromaticPleasantly strong-smelling
delicacy · gourmet · savoring · massage · spa · pampering · comfort · warmth
Reward-linked neural messenger
impulse · compulsion · addiction · obsession · fixation · temptation · weakness · vice
indulgence
Yielding to desire
- gratificationPleasure from satisfying desires
- hedonistSeeker of sensual satisfaction
- self-indulgenceExcessive yielding to desires
decadence · epicurean · sybarite · libertine · voluptuary · sensualist · excess · immoderation · debauchery · dissipation
sensual
Of bodily pleasure
aromatic · delicacy · gourmet · savoring · massage · spa · pampering · comfort · warmth · softness
dopamine
Reward-linked neural messenger
urge · impulse · compulsion · addiction · obsession · fixation · temptation · weakness · vice · escapism
entertainment
Agreeable diversion of attention
enjoyment · diversion · nightlife · partying · clubbing · socializing · revelry · merrymaking · carousing · festivities
- indulgenceindulgence, indulge, indulgent, self-indulgent, overindulgence
- decadencedecadence, decay, lavishness, aestheticism, dandyism
- excessexcess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance
- self-controlself-control, restraint, willpower, composure, moderation
- vicevice, debauchery, prostitution, depravity, immorality
pleasure-seekingascetic
One who renounces indulgence
asceticism · self-denying · abstinent · abstemious · austere
pleasure-seekingspiritual
Relating to the soul
otherworldly · pious · devout · holy · saintly
pleasure-seekingduty-bound
Morally required to act
self-sacrificing · service-oriented · altruistic · stoic · stoical
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