Epicurean synonyms

ĕp'ĭ-kyo͝o-rē'ən, -kyo͝or'ē-

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epicure
A person who takes particular pleasure in fine food and drink.
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hedonist
Someone devoted to hedonism
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sensualist
A person who believes in enjoying sensuality and the experience of pleasant sensations.
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sybarite
A native or inhabitant of Sybaris.
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glutton (related)
A person who eats or consumes immoderate amounts of food and drink.
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sybaritic
Of or relating to Sybaris or its people.
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voluptuary
Of or characterized by luxury and sensual pleasures
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voluptuous
(Of a woman) Curvaceous, sexy, full-figured.
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sensual
Resulting from, or showing preoccupation with, bodily or sexual pleasure
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sensualistic
Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism.
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sensuous
The definition of sensuous is relating to or affecting the senses.
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pain (related)
Characterized by or devoted to pleasure and luxury as a lifestyle
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luxurious
Constituting or contributing to luxury; splendid, rich, comfortable, etc.
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luxuriant
Characterized by rich or profuse growth:
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hedonic
Of or relating to hedonism or hedonists.
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gourmet
Gourmet is defined as someone who enjoys fine food and wine and is good at judging their quality.
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gastronome
A person who enjoys and has a discriminating taste for foods
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bon-vivant
A person with refined taste, especially one who enjoys superb food and drink.
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foodie
(Slang) A person having an enthusiastic interest in the preparation and consumption of fine foods
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pleasure-bent
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existentialist (related)
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epicurus (related)
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epicureanism (related)
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Find another word for epicurean. In this page you can discover 25 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for epicurean, like: epicure, hedonist, sensualist, sybarite, glutton, hedonistic, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous, sensual and sensualistic.
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Epicurean Sentence Examples

  • His defection from the Epicurean school is almost unique.

  • According to this authority Jovinian in 388 was living at Rome the celibate life of an ascetic monk, possessed a good acquaintance with the Bible, and was the author of several minor works, but, undergoing an heretical change of view, afterwards became a self-indulgent Epicurean and unrefined sensualist.

  • Gibbon was such a man as Horace might have been, had the Roman Epicurean been fonder of hard intellectual work, and less prone than he was to the indulgence of emotion.

  • Leibnitz, again, having become equally dissatisfied with Cartesianism, Spinozism and the Epicurean realism of Gassendi, in the latter part of his life came still nearer than Spinoza to metaphysical idealism in his monadology, or half-Pythagorean,half-Brunistic analysis of bodies into monads, or units, or simple substances, indivisible and unextended, but endowed with perception and appetite.

  • In the Epicurean physics there are two parts - a general metaphysic and psychology, and a special explanation of particular phenomena of nature.

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