epicurism

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noun

Synonym of Epicureanism.

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Epicureanism
OriginLatin Epicurismus →
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Meanings

nounepicurism (countable and uncountable, plural epicurisms)

plural epicurisms · alternative Epicurism

  1. countableuncountableSynonym of Epicureanism.

    Deep-hidden under wretchedest god-forgetting Cants, Epicurisms, Dead-Sea Apisms; forgotten as under foulest fat Lethe mud and weeds, there is yet, in all hearts born into this God’s-World, a spark of the Godlike slumbering.

    1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter IV, Captains of Industry”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope)

    Synonyms: Epicureanism

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of Epicureanism.

Similar
Epicureanism
Also see
epicureanismgourmandism

Origin

  1. LatinEpicurismus
  2. Englishepicurism

From Latin Epicurismus, from Epicurus + -ismus (“-ism”). Equivalent to epicure + -ism.

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