A general devotion to the pursuit of pleasure.
The belief that pleasure or happiness is the highest good in life. Some hedonists, such as the Epicureans, have insisted that pleasure of the entire mind, not just pleasure of the senses, is the highest good.
Addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs.
The doctrine that all knowledge not only originates in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism.
A sensual style or aesthetic.
The doctrine that gratification of the senses is the highest good.