hedonist

HEE-duh-nistnoun

Meaning a person who lives mainly for pleasure

Memory hook HE’S DONE with work: HE-DONE-ist. Sven says he is done with chores forever; from now on it is ice cream, music and naps in the sun. He is a hedonist.

On vacation, even sensible Aunt Lin turned into a hedonist, napping in the sun and ordering dessert first.

In context Her brother saved and planned for the future, but she was a hedonist who spent every paycheck on concerts, fancy meals and trips the moment it arrived.

Similar pleasure-seeker, sybarite, sensualist, bon vivant

Opposite ascetic, puritan

From Greek hedone, “pleasure.”

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