pleasure seeker

Lives for enjoyment

A pleasure seeker is someone devoted to pursuing enjoyment and gratification, often at the expense of responsibility or deeper commitments.

The term carries a faintly disapproving tone, suggesting hedonism or frivolity: The resort caters to pleasure seekers from around the world.

He dismissed his son as a pleasure seeker with no ambition.

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Opposites
lifestyle orientation toward pleasure vs. denial

pleasure seekerascetic

One who renounces indulgence

monk · nun · puritan · abstainer · anchorite

motivation and life priorities

pleasure seekeraltruist

Selfless benefactor of others

martyr · ascetic · self-sacrificer · servant · do-gooder

disposition toward suffering and hardship

pleasure seekermasochist

One who enjoys suffering

stoic · sufferer · penitent · glutton for punishment · spartan

Family

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