How to Use hedonic in a Sentence

hedonic

adjective

• Jiménez pointed me in the direction of something known as the hedonic treadmill.
  — Anna Codrea-Rado, refinery29.com, 9 Sep. 2021
• Without pleasure, the behaviour is no longer a hedonic one.
  — Desiree Kozlowski, CNN, 12 Sep. 2017
• After all, there are those who choose to take drugs that blot out any chance of meaning and authenticity, hoping to achieve hedonic bliss.
  — Paul Bloom, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
• The caffeinated group also were more likely to choose high-hedonic products.
  — Lisa Ward, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
• The hedonic concept dates back to the ancient Greek philosopher Aristippus of Cyrene, who argued that the ultimate goal of life ought to be to maximize pleasure.
  — Gregory Grieve, The Conversation, 19 May 2022
• At a time of public health and financial challenges, the mere mention of hedonic pleasures raises eyebrows.
  — Sona Bahadur, Quartz India, 17 Sep. 2020
• The two systems aren’t completely separate, and hunger can amp up our hedonic reward system.
  — Tamar Haspel, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2016
• The scientists were interested in the activation of the striatum, an area rich in dopamine neurons and involved in the processing of hedonic rewards.
  — Jonah Lehrer, WIRED, 11 Nov. 2010
• Rather than a raunchy account of hedonic excess, the real drama resides in Simon’s struggle to maintain his creative mojo.
  — Steve Almond, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2018
• Taking time to do this will suddenly take you away from making impulsive purchases or trying to keep up with neighbors or friends (the hedonic treadmill).
  — Juan Carlos Medina, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• Herlihy suggests that breaking up Live Nation could unleash market forces to fix the hedonic horror.
  — Peter Cohan, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• Instead, their hedonic evaluation of the vacation is best explained by a combination of how good or bad the vacation was at its peak, and how good or bad the vacation was at its end.
  — Aaron M. Sackett, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2020
• Some scientists hope that a better understanding of the hedonic aspects of food choice can help in battling the obesity epidemic.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2019
• The Treadmill Is running on the hedonic career treadmill leaving you breathless and unsatisfied?
  — Terry Powell, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• Obsessing over wealth is like being on a hedonic treadmill – continuously running to stay in the same emotional place.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 May 2010
• The research ultimately revealed that the worms, like humans, engage in hedonic feeding — a phenomenon more commonly known as the munchies.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
• All are polished, even understated—much more laid-back than their creator—but also hedonic, complex enough to enrapture the connoisseur and fleshy enough to appeal to the sensualist.
  — Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 6 Nov. 2015
• The hedonic pleasures of staying up too late, mainlining Pizza Rolls with Mountain Dew, and passing out on the living-room floor are nothing compared to what most adults regularly arrange for themselves.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 18 Jan. 2023
• People bob along from one hedonic act to the next, never even questioning the sustainability of their life choices, much less grasping that their lives are morally and spiritually empty.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 5 June 2021
• Istvan, by contrast, had come to transhumanism from a more secular, hedonic background.
  — Mark O’Connell, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2017
• But that process, known as hedonic adjustment, most commonly applies to physical objects.
  — New York Times, 10 Oct. 2021
• The cautionary word, however, is that humans are prone to what’s called hedonic adaptation, which basically translates to a tendency to revert back to our old – and in this case, unappreciative – ways.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2021
• Perhaps a decline in hedonic happiness lies behind the upsurge in support for populists, swamping the rise in evaluative happiness.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2019
• The hedonic treadmill, also called human adaptation, is the natural tendency for humans to return to a baseline level of happiness regardless of our circumstances.
  — Paco De Leon, refinery29.com, 7 Dec. 2022
• Current popular culture centers on hedonic happiness, which values an outgoing, social, joyous view of life.
  — Gregory Grieve, The Conversation, 19 May 2022
• Another technical term for this is 'hedonic consumption'.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 5 Oct. 2021
• Worse, that undermeasured hedonic cost decline driven by technology has allowed price increases to sneak in elsewhere without triggering classic inflation fears.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 3 June 2018
• Three concern positive indicators of well-being: eudaemonic happiness (having a sense of meaning), hedonic happiness (joy in the moment) and relationships.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2019
• The odorous effluents were assigned 34 characteristic odors in three hedonic categories (neutral, pleasant and unpleasant).
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2012
• The Bureau of Labor Statistics recognizes this reality and incorporates hedonic improvements into its calculus to account for it.
  — Ike Brannon, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024