pleasurist

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noun

Someone devoted to worldly pleasure.

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Meanings

nounpleasurist (plural pleasurists)

plural pleasurists

  1. Someone devoted to worldly pleasure.

    Live happy in the Elysium of a virtuously composed mind, and let intellectual contents exceed the delights wherein mere pleasurists place their paradise.

    c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the section)”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, →OCLC

    Synonyms: hedonist, pleasure seeker, bon viveur, epicure, epicurean, hedonist, high-stepper, lapling

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSomeone devoted to worldly pleasure.

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Origin

From pleasure + -ist.

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APA

pleasurist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pleasurist

MLA

“pleasurist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pleasurist. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pleasurist,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pleasurist.

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