Definition of hedonism
1
: the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the sole or chief good in life
2
: a way of life based on or suggesting the principles of hedonism
she was a perfect specimen of selfish hedonism— Donald Armstrong
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The first known use of hedonism was in 1856
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