as in sensualist
a person whose life is devoted to luxury and sensual pleasures
he's a star chef and self-described hedonist
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Recent Examples of hedonist
This is his take on recovery rap — 12-step-core from an artist who was once one of hip-hop’s proudest hedonists.
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Stephen Kearse, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2025
Medieval guild houses and sleek glass façades share space—stitched together by whirring trams—as Bahnhofstrasse, the city’s famed luxury shopping boulevard, draws crowds of hedonists with its parade of designer boutiques.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
If Ritter is a masochist and a sadist, Eloise is a pure hedonist.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2025
Her Daphne was a realist, a hedonist and, like Fahy, a great hang.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 May 2025
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Stephen Kearse, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2025
Medieval guild houses and sleek glass façades share space—stitched together by whirring trams—as Bahnhofstrasse, the city’s famed luxury shopping boulevard, draws crowds of hedonists with its parade of designer boutiques.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
If Ritter is a masochist and a sadist, Eloise is a pure hedonist.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2025
Her Daphne was a realist, a hedonist and, like Fahy, a great hang.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hedonist
Noun
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Things don’t go well, resulting in a Lord of the Flies–esque battle between, among others, Jude Law’s idealist and Ana de Armas’s shameless sensualist.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
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The film would eventually gross more than $16 million worldwide while securing Wong’s reputation as one of cinema’s great sensualists.—
Gregg Kilday,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
Noun
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Aldis Hodge as the detective and forensic psychologist who looks into the minds of killers to catch them goes on the hunt in the second season trailer for Cross for a ruthless vigilante pursuing a billionaire businessman tied to the murder of a playboy.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Jan. 2026
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Furthermore, at his funeral, Juliet learns that Romeo was quite the playboy and had a host of other relationships — not just with other females.—
Rick Mauch,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Nov. 2025
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Nothing important happens in this movie, which the Italian voluptuary Luca Guadagnino directed and yet, being as manically alive as Mr. Fiennes is here has to count for something.—
WESLEY MORRIS,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2017
Noun
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Higher volumes of sybarites are also tasking luxury operators with making crowd-free vacation dreams come true.—
Lindsay Cohn,
Robb Report,
20 May 2025
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What unites these contemporary sybarites with their stylish forebears is a powerful longing for freedom.—
Lynn Yaeger,
Vogue,
16 May 2025
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“Hedonist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hedonist. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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