Epicureanism

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Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.

Noun

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epicureanism - a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophers

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