Did you mean epicurean ism?
Exact Match:
- epicureanism
- a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophers
Synonyms:
- Cyrenaic hedonism,
- Cyrenaicism,
- aesthetics,
- appetite,
- appetitiveness,
- artistic taste,
- connoisseurship,
- dilettantism,
- epicurism,
- ethical hedonism,
- eudaemonism,
- expertise,
- expertism,
- friandise,
- gastronomics,
- gastronomy,
- gourmandise,
- hedonic calculus,
- hedonics,
- hedonism,
- luxuriousness,
- luxury,
- pleasure principle,
- pleasure-loving,
- pleasure-seeking,
- psychological hedonism,
- sensualism,
- sensuality,
- sensualness,
- sybaritism,
- unchastity,
- virtu,
- virtuosity,
- voluptuousness
Related Words:
- aesthetics
collapse - (art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art); "traditional aesthetics assumed the existence of universal and timeless criteria of artistic value" related words >
- artistic taste,
- axiology,
- casuistry,
- connoisseurship,
- cosmology,
- dilettantism,
- epicureanism,
- epicurism,
- epistemology,
- ethics,
- expertise,
- expertism,
- first philosophy,
- friandise,
- gastronomy,
- gnosiology,
- logic,
- mental philosophy,
- metaphysics,
- moral philosophy,
- ontology,
- phenomenology,
- philosophastry,
- philosophic doctrine,
- philosophic system,
- philosophic theory,
- philosophical inquiry,
- philosophical speculation,
- philosophy,
- school of philosophy,
- school of thought,
- science of being,
- sophistry,
- theory of beauty,
- theory of knowledge,
- value theory,
- virtu,
- virtuosity
- virtu
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- objet d'art collectively (especially fine antiques)
- artistic quality
- love of or taste for fine objects of art related words >
- aesthetics,
- art,
- art object,
- artistic skill,
- artistic taste,
- artistry,
- arty-craftiness,
- brainchild,
- bric-a-brac,
- classic,
- composition,
- connoisseurship,
- creation,
- design,
- dilettantism,
- epicureanism,
- epicurism,
- expertise,
- expertism,
- flair,
- friandise,
- gastronomy,
- grotesque,
- kitsch,
- master,
- masterpiece,
- masterwork,
- mobile,
- museum piece,
- nude,
- old master,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- piece,
- piece of virtu,
- stabile,
- statue,
- still life,
- study,
- talent,
- virtuosity,
- work,
- work of art
- Cyrenaic,
- Cyrenaic hedonism,
- Cyrenaicism,
- appetite,
- appetitive,
- appetitiveness,
- bent on pleasure,
- epicurean,
- epicureanism,
- epicurism,
- ethical hedonism,
- eudaemonic,
- fun-loving,
- hedonic,
- hedonic calculus,
- hedonics,
- hedonism,
- hedonistic,
- luxurious,
- luxuriousness,
- luxury,
- luxury-loving,
- pleasure principle,
- pleasure-bent,
- pleasure-loving,
- psychological hedonism,
- sensual,
- sensualism,
- sensuality,
- sensualness,
- sybaritic,
- sybaritism,
- unchaste,
- unchastity,
- voluptuous,
- voluptuousness
- hedonism
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- an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good
- the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle related words >
- Christian ethics,
- Cyrenaic hedonism,
- Cyrenaicism,
- Stoicism,
- altruistic ethics,
- appetite,
- appetitiveness,
- aretaics,
- casuistry,
- categorical imperative,
- comparative ethics,
- deontology,
- egoistic ethics,
- empiricism,
- epicureanism,
- epicurism,
- ethical formalism,
- ethical hedonism,
- ethical philosophy,
- ethology,
- ethonomics,
- eudaemonics,
- eudaemonism,
- evolutionism,
- golden rule,
- hedonic calculus,
- hedonics,
- intuitionism,
- luxuriousness,
- luxury,
- moral philosophy,
- perfectionism,
- pleasure principle,
- pleasure-loving,
- pleasure-seeking,
- psychological hedonism,
- sensualism,
- sensuality,
- sensualness,
- situation ethics,
- sybaritism,
- unchastity,
- utilitarianism,
- voluptuousness
- Cyrenaic hedonism,
- Cyrenaicism,
- amorality,
- appetite,
- appetitiveness,
- backsliding,
- carnality,
- criminality,
- delinquency,
- epicureanism,
- epicurism,
- ethical hedonism,
- evil,
- evil nature,
- hedonic calculus,
- hedonics,
- hedonism,
- immorality,
- impropriety,
- impurity,
- inappropriateness,
- indecency,
- indecorousness,
- indecorum,
- indelicacy,
- indiscreetness,
- indiscretion,
- inelegance,
- inelegancy,
- lady-killing,
- lechery,
- licentiousness,
- luxuriousness,
- luxury,
- moral delinquency,
- peccability,
- philander,
- philandering,
- pleasure principle,
- pleasure-seeking,
- prodigality,
- psychological hedonism,
- recidivism,
- sensualism,
- sensuality,
- sensualness,
- sybaritism,
- unangelicalness,
- uncleanness,
- ungodliness,
- ungoodness,
- unmorality,
- unrighteousness,
- unsaintliness,
- unseemliness,
- unvirtuousness,
- vice,
- viciousness,
- voluptuousness,
- wantonness,
- waywardness,
- wrongdoing
- Stoicism
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- an indifference to pleasure or pain
- (philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno related words >
- Aristotelian philosophy,
- Aristotelianism,
- Christian ethics,
- Encratism,
- Epicureanism,
- Friday,
- Lenten fare,
- Peripatetic school,
- Peripateticism,
- Platonic philosophy,
- Platonism,
- Pythagoreanism,
- Pythagorism,
- Rechabitism,
- Shakerism,
- Spartan fare,
- Stoic philosophy,
- abstainment,
- abstemiousness,
- abstention,
- abstinence,
- altruistic ethics,
- aretaics,
- asceticism,
- avoidance,
- banyan day,
- casuistry,
- categorical imperative,
- celibacy,
- chastity,
- comparative ethics,
- continence,
- deontology,
- egoistic ethics,
- empiricism,
- eschewal,
- ethical formalism,
- ethical philosophy,
- ethology,
- ethonomics,
- eudaemonics,
- evolutionism,
- fast,
- fish day,
- fruitarianism,
- golden rule,
- gymnosophy,
- hedonism,
- intuitionism,
- moral philosophy,
- nephalism,
- perfectionism,
- plain living,
- refraining,
- refrainment,
- sexual abstinence,
- simple diet,
- situation ethics,
- spare diet,
- teetotalism,
- the pledge,
- total abstinence,
- utilitarianism,
- vegetarianism
- pleasure principle
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- (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality related words >
- Cyrenaic hedonism,
- Cyrenaicism,
- anima,
- appetite,
- appetitiveness,
- ardor,
- coconscious,
- collective unconscious,
- concupiscence,
- conscience,
- conscious self,
- curiosity,
- death instinct,
- desideration,
- desire,
- drive,
- eagerness,
- ego,
- ego ideal,
- ego-id conflict,
- epicureanism,
- epicurism,
- ethical hedonism,
- ethical self,
- eudaemonism,
- fancy,
- fantasy,
- foreconscious,
- hedonic calculus,
- hedonics,
- hedonism,
- hope,
- horme,
- id,
- intellectual curiosity,
- libidinal energy,
- libido,
- lust for learning,
- luxuriousness,
- luxury,
- mind,
- motive force,
- need,
- passion,
- persona,
- personality,
- pleasure,
- pleasure-loving,
- pleasure-seeking,
- preconscious,
- primitive self,
- psyche,
- psychic apparatus,
- psychological hedonism,
- racial unconscious,
- self,
- sensualism,
- sensuality,
- sensualness,
- sexual desire,
- subconscious,
- subconscious mind,
- subliminal,
- subliminal self,
- submerged mind,
- superego,
- sybaritism,
- thirst for knowledge,
- unchastity,
- unconscious,
- unconscious mind,
- urge,
- vital impulse,
- voluptuousness,
- want,
- wanting,
- will,
- will and pleasure,
- wish,
- wish fulfillment
- ability,
- acquaintance,
- address,
- adeptness,
- adroitness,
- aesthetics,
- airmanship,
- all-knowingness,
- art,
- artfulness,
- artisanship,
- artistic taste,
- artistry,
- bravura,
- brilliance,
- capability,
- capacity,
- cleverness,
- command,
- competence,
- connoisseurship,
- control,
- coordination,
- corpus,
- craft,
- craftsmanship,
- cross-disciplinary knowledge,
- cunning,
- data,
- datum,
- deep knowledge,
- deftness,
- dexterity,
- dexterousness,
- dextrousness,
- dilettantism,
- diplomacy,
- efficiency,
- encyclopedic knowledge,
- epicureanism,
- epicurism,
- experience,
- expertism,
- expertness,
- extensive knowledge,
- facility,
- facts,
- factual base,
- familiarity,
- finesse,
- friandise,
- gastronomy,
- general knowledge,
- grace,
- grip,
- handiness,
- horsemanship,
- information,
- ingeniousness,
- ingenuity,
- intelligence,
- intimacy,
- judgement,
- ken,
- knack,
- know-how,
- knowing,
- knowledge,
- marksmanship,
- mastership,
- mastery,
- omniscience,
- pansophy,
- polyhistory,
- polymathy,
- practical ability,
- practical knowledge,
- private knowledge,
- privity,
- proficiency,
- profound knowledge,
- prowess,
- quickness,
- ratio cognoscendi,
- readiness,
- resource,
- resourcefulness,
- savoir-faire,
- savvy,
- seamanship,
- self-knowledge,
- skill,
- skillfulness,
- special knowledge,
- style,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- technic,
- technical brilliance,
- technical mastery,
- technical skill,
- technics,
- technique,
- timing,
- virtu,
- virtuosity,
- wit,
- wizardry,
- workmanship
- virtuosity
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- technical skill or fluency or style exhibited by a virtuoso related words >
- ability,
- accomplishment,
- address,
- adeptness,
- adroitness,
- aesthetics,
- airmanship,
- artfulness,
- artisanship,
- artistic taste,
- artistry,
- ascendancy,
- bravura,
- brilliance,
- capability,
- capacity,
- cleverness,
- command,
- competence,
- connoisseurship,
- control,
- coordination,
- craft,
- craftsmanship,
- cunning,
- dash,
- deanship,
- deftness,
- dexterity,
- dexterousness,
- dextrousness,
- dilettantism,
- diplomacy,
- ear for music,
- eclat,
- efficiency,
- elan,
- epicureanism,
- epicurism,
- excellence,
- expertise,
- expertism,
- facility,
- favor,
- finesse,
- flair,
- friandise,
- gastronomy,
- grace,
- greatness,
- grip,
- handiness,
- horsemanship,
- incomparability,
- ingeniousness,
- ingenuity,
- inimitability,
- know-how,
- lead,
- majority,
- marksmanship,
- mastership,
- mastery,
- musical ear,
- musical sense,
- musical talent,
- musicality,
- musicianship,
- one-upmanship,
- panache,
- perfect pitch,
- practical ability,
- precedence,
- predominance,
- predomination,
- preeminence,
- preponderance,
- prepotence,
- prepotency,
- prerogative,
- prestige,
- priority,
- privilege,
- proficiency,
- prowess,
- pyrotechnics,
- quickness,
- readiness,
- relative pitch,
- resource,
- resourcefulness,
- right-of-way,
- savoir-faire,
- savvy,
- seamanship,
- seniority,
- sense of rhythm,
- show,
- showmanship,
- skill,
- skillfulness,
- staginess,
- style,
- success,
- superiority,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- technical brilliance,
- technical mastery,
- technical skill,
- technique,
- timing,
- transcendence,
- transcendency,
- virtu,
- wit,
- wizardry,
- workmanship
- atomism
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- (chemistry) any theory in which all matter is composed of tiny discrete finite indivisible indestructible particles; "the ancient Greek philosophers Democritus and Epicurus held atomic theories of the universe"
- (psychology) a theory that reduces all mental phenomena to simple elements (sensations and feelings) that form complex ideas by association related words >
- Aristotelianism,
- Berkeleianism,
- Bohr theory,
- Bradleianism,
- Cynicism,
- Cyrenaic hedonism,
- Cyrenaicism,
- Dirac theory,
- Epicureanism,
- Fichteanism,
- Hegelianism,
- Heideggerianism,
- Heracliteanism,
- Herbartianism,
- Humism,
- Kantianism,
- Leibnizianism,
- Marxism,
- Mimamsa,
- Neo-Hegelianism,
- Neo-Pythagoreanism,
- Neoplatonism,
- Peripateticism,
- Platonism,
- Purva Mimamsa,
- Pyrrhonism,
- Pythagoreanism,
- Sankhya,
- Schellingism,
- Scotism,
- Socratism,
- Sophism,
- Sophistry,
- Spencerianism,
- Stoicism,
- Thomism,
- acosmism,
- agnosticism,
- animalism,
- animatism,
- animism,
- behaviorism,
- commonsense realism,
- correspondence principle,
- cosmotheism,
- criticism,
- deism,
- dialectical materialism,
- dualism,
- earthliness,
- eclecticism,
- egoism,
- empiricism,
- epiphenomenalism,
- ethics,
- eudaemonism,
- existentialism,
- hedonism,
- historical materialism,
- humanism,
- hylomorphism,
- hylotheism,
- hylozoism,
- idealism,
- immaterialism,
- individualism,
- intuitionism,
- law of parity,
- materialism,
- mechanism,
- mentalism,
- monism,
- mysticism,
- natural realism,
- naturalism,
- neocriticism,
- new realism,
- nominalism,
- octet theory,
- ontologism,
- ontology,
- optimism,
- organic mechanism,
- organicism,
- panpsychism,
- pantheism,
- pessimism,
- physicalism,
- physicism,
- pluralism,
- positive philosophy,
- positivism,
- pragmaticism,
- pragmatism,
- psychism,
- psychological hedonism,
- quantum theory,
- rationalism,
- realism,
- representative realism,
- secular humanism,
- secularism,
- semiotic,
- semiotics,
- sensationalism,
- skepticism,
- substantialism,
- syncretism,
- temporality,
- theism,
- transcendentalism,
- utilitarianism,
- voluntarism,
- worldliness
- appetite
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- a feeling of craving something; "an appetite for life"; "the object of life is to satisfy as many appetencies as possible"- Granville Hicks related words >
- Cyrenaic hedonism,
- Cyrenaicism,
- alacrity,
- an universal wolf,
- animation,
- animus,
- anxiety,
- anxiousness,
- appetence,
- appetency,
- appetition,
- appetitiveness,
- avidity,
- avidness,
- bent,
- bias,
- breathless impatience,
- canine appetite,
- cannibalism,
- carnivorism,
- carnivority,
- carnivorousness,
- cheerful readiness,
- chewing,
- choice,
- command,
- conation,
- conatus,
- consumption,
- coveting,
- craving,
- cropping,
- cupidity,
- decision,
- deglutition,
- demand,
- desire,
- determination,
- devouring,
- devourment,
- dieting,
- dining,
- discretion,
- disposition,
- drought,
- dryness,
- eagerness,
- eating,
- edacity,
- elan,
- emptiness,
- empty stomach,
- enthusiasm,
- epicureanism,
- epicurism,
- epulation,
- ethical hedonism,
- fancy,
- feasting,
- feeding,
- flair,
- fondness,
- forwardness,
- free choice,
- free will,
- gluttony,
- gobbling,
- gourmandise,
- grazing,
- greed,
- gust,
- gusto,
- hankering,
- hedonic calculus,
- hedonics,
- hedonism,
- herbivorism,
- herbivority,
- herbivorousness,
- hollow hunger,
- hunger,
- hungriness,
- impatience,
- inclination,
- ingestion,
- intention,
- itch,
- itching,
- keen desire,
- keenness,
- leaning,
- licking,
- life,
- liking,
- liveliness,
- longing,
- love,
- lust,
- luxuriousness,
- luxury,
- manducation,
- mania,
- mastication,
- messing,
- mind,
- munching,
- nibbling,
- nutrition,
- objective,
- omnivorism,
- omnivorousness,
- omophagy,
- pantophagy,
- passion,
- pasture,
- pasturing,
- pecking,
- penchant,
- pleasure,
- pleasure principle,
- pleasure-seeking,
- polydipsia,
- predilection,
- preference,
- proclivity,
- promptness,
- propensity,
- prurience,
- pruriency,
- psychological hedonism,
- quickness,
- readiness,
- regalement,
- relish,
- relishing,
- resolution,
- rumination,
- savoring,
- sensualism,
- sensuality,
- sensualness,
- sexual desire,
- soft spot,
- spirit,
- stomach,
- sweet tooth,
- sybaritism,
- tapeworm,
- taste,
- tasting,
- tendency,
- thirst,
- thirstiness,
- torment of Tantalus,
- unchastity,
- urge,
- urgency,
- vegetarianism,
- velleity,
- verve,
- vitality,
- vivacity,
- volition,
- voluptuousness,
- voracity,
- weakness,
- will,
- will power,
- wish,
- wolfing,
- yearning,
- zeal,
- zest,
- zestfulness
- luxury
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- something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity
- wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living related words >
- Babylonian splendor,
- Cyrenaic hedonism,
- Cyrenaicism,
- Easy Street,
- affluence,
- amenity,
- amusement,
- animal pleasure,
- appeal,
- appealingness,
- appetite,
- appetitiveness,
- attractiveness,
- bed of roses,
- bedizenment,
- bewitchment,
- bodily pleasure,
- brilliance,
- captivation,
- carnal delight,
- charm,
- clover,
- comfort,
- confidence,
- content,
- contentment,
- coziness,
- creature comforts,
- dainty,
- delicacy,
- delight,
- delightfulness,
- duplication,
- duplication of effort,
- ease,
- easy circumstances,
- elaborateness,
- elegance,
- embellishment,
- enchantment,
- endpleasure,
- enjoyment,
- enravishment,
- entertainment,
- entrancement,
- epicureanism,
- epicurism,
- ethical hedonism,
- euphoria,
- expendable,
- expletive,
- exquisiteness,
- extra,
- extravagance,
- fascination,
- fat,
- featherbedding,
- felicity,
- filling,
- fleshpots,
- forepleasure,
- frill,
- frills,
- frippery,
- fruition,
- fun,
- gingerbread,
- glamour,
- glory,
- gorgeousness,
- grace,
- gracious life,
- gracious living,
- grandeur,
- grandiosity,
- grandness,
- gratification,
- great satisfaction,
- gusto,
- happiness,
- hearty enjoyment,
- hedonic calculus,
- hedonics,
- hedonism,
- imposingness,
- impressiveness,
- indulgence,
- intellectual pleasure,
- invitingness,
- joie de vivre,
- keen pleasure,
- kicks,
- lap of luxury,
- lavishness,
- life of ease,
- loaves and fishes,
- loveliness,
- luxuriousness,
- magnificence,
- majesty,
- needlessness,
- nobility,
- opulence,
- ornamentation,
- overadornment,
- overlap,
- padding,
- payroll padding,
- physical pleasure,
- pleasure,
- pleasure principle,
- pleasure-seeking,
- pleonasm,
- plushness,
- poshness,
- prolixity,
- prosperity,
- prosperousness,
- proudness,
- psychological hedonism,
- quiet pleasure,
- redundance,
- redundancy,
- relish,
- resplendence,
- richness,
- ritziness,
- satisfaction,
- security,
- self-gratification,
- self-indulgence,
- sensual pleasure,
- sensualism,
- sensuality,
- sensualness,
- sensuous pleasure,
- sensuousness,
- sexual pleasure,
- splendidness,
- splendiferousness,
- splendor,
- state,
- stateliness,
- success,
- sumptuousness,
- superfluity,
- superfluousness,
- sweetness of life,
- sybaritism,
- tantalizingness,
- tautology,
- temptingness,
- the affluent life,
- the good life,
- thriving condition,
- titillation,
- treat,
- unchastity,
- unnecessariness,
- upward mobility,
- velvet,
- verbosity,
- voluptuousness,
- weal,
- wealth,
- welfare,
- well-being,
- winningness,
- winsomeness,
- witchery,
- zest
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