say it: HEE-duh-niz-uhm
hedonism is a noun meaning "the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle
an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hedonism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.