(a.) Of or relating to Hedonism or the Hedonic sect.
Example Sentences:
(1) It may have been like punk never ‘appened, but you caught a whiff of the movement’s scorched earth puritanism in the mocking disdain with which Smash Hits addressed rock-star hedonism.
(2) When the amount of intake was described in terms of an hedonic index (HI), which indicates the hedonic aspect of the taste of each solution, HI's for sucrose, NaCl, HCl, and quinine were 1.17, 0.43, -0.49, and -0.89, respectively.
(3) These results indicate that quantification of effects of hedonic ratings on intake within subjects is possible, but that hedonic ratings may not be good discriminators of intake differences between subjects.
(4) Forty-two chronic schizophrenic patients were evaluated for extent of hedonic deficit and compared with a demographically matched sample of normals.
(5) The excitatory potential, the involvement potential, and the hedonic valence of the nonerotic and erotic stimuli were also assessed.
(6) To determine the contribution of sensory stimulation to the changing hedonic response to foods, the effects of consuming very low-calorie and higher calorie versions of soup and jello on the subjective pleasantness of foods were compared.
(7) The responses to salty, sour, and bitter solutions shared the same hedonically negative upper- and midface components but differed in the accompanying lower-face actions: lip pursing in response to sour and mouth gaping in response to bitter.
(8) The results suggest that the increased desire to binge in response to stressors reported by subjects higher in disordered eating cannot be accounted for by differences in cardiovascular reactivity or negative hedonic state, relative to what subjects low in disordered eating showed in response to the same stressors.
(9) Another was to escape into a world of desperate hedonism.
(10) Of course there was, and still is, wild hedonism among some of the more flamboyant and brash members of the trading community, but focusing on the outliers is no way to properly judge the majority of the industry.
(11) Our data include measures of: (1) psychological functioning of the parents; (2) the environment, including family functioning, marital adjustment, and parenting practices; (3) child adjustment, including peer, or teacher, parent, and self-ratings; (4) early signs or precursors to the development of schizophrenia or affective disorder, including cognitive slippage, attentional deficits, hedonic capacity, depressogenic attributional styles, and subsyndromal affective patterns.
(12) The inter-relationship of personality with dietary intake of salt and sugar, and with hedonic responses to saltiness and sweetness, was examined among 62 female and 38 male university students.
(13) Dynorphin A(1-8) activity within some brainstem structure(s) may therefore contribute prominently to the opioid mechanism whose mediation of the hedonic response to food was previously inferred from naloxone antagonism.
(14) Alterations in CTA learning and extinction following lesions of the lateral tegmental noradrenergic system appear to reflect alterations in the way that animals with lesions react toward the hedonic aspects of taste-related stimuli rather than alterations in associational or attentional mechanisms.
(15) Audio-taped interviews recorded in the Gottesman-Shields schizophrenic twin series (17 pairs of identical twins, 14 pairs of fraternal same-sex twins, and 12 unpaired twins) were rated for level of hedonic capacity.
(16) Mice selectively bred for sensitivity (COLD) or insensitivity (HOT) to the hypothermic effect of ethanol were tested in three tasks purported to assess ethanol's hedonic properties: place conditioning, taste conditioning, and ethanol drinking.
(17) Hedonic capacity was found to be genetically influenced, although it appeared to be less heritable than the global diagnosis of schizophrenia.
(18) Only with regard to androstenone did trend analyses reveal a significant quadratic relationship between hedonic estimates and phases of the menstrual cycle, peaking at ovulation.
(19) Intensity and hedonic responses were collected using an unstructured linear scale and a nine-point interval scale, respectively.
(20) Morphine reduced the aversive hedonic properties of both novel and familiar quinine solution (0.05% and 0.1%) but did not modify the palatability of 20% sucrose solution.
Hedonistic
Definition:
(a.) Same as Hedonic, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a city where liberal 19th-century culture was menaced by anti-semitic populist politics - where Adolf Hitler wandered round bitterly nursing a sense of thwarted genius - the middle class escaped into hedonistic dreams, and invented modern sexuality.
(2) The often hedonistic vibe has prompted criticism of the fair, including accusations that it attracts scenesters with little real interest in contemporary art.
(3) Nutt himself has tried "a bit of cannabis, and speed once or twice", but the only drug he consumes now is alcohol, making him neither, as he keeps pointing out, a prohibitionist nor a hedonist.
(4) But clearly hedonistic consciousness is capable of overcoming our biological programming.
(5) And that is how I became a religious maniac and a total hedonist at the same time.
(6) She said: "Under the carapace of glittering, hedonistic celebrity, the ooze of a very different and more dangerous lifestyle has seeped out for all to see."
(7) His Asylum debut, Warren Zevon (1976), bristled with west coast rock deities - including Glenn Frey and Don Henley, of the Eagles, and Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, from Fleetwood Mac - though he seemed hell-bent on sabotaging the hedonistic myth of the golden state.
(8) Moir also called for "the truth" to emerge "about the exact circumstances of his strange and lonely death" and said: "Once again, under the carapace of glittering, hedonistic celebrity, the ooze of a very different and more dangerous lifestyle has seeped out for all to see".
(9) Karl and I would get to keep our little unit intact, and our hedonistic lifestyle, while still having a child: a part-time child.
(10) Bell, appointed chairman of the commission, stressed the problems of a post-industrial economy, modern society's technocratic structure versus its hedonistic culture and the increasingly unrealistic levels of public and private expectations.
(11) Photograph: Alamy Bowie’s relationship with his wife had been disintegrating under the pressures of success and the couple’s hedonistic, promiscuous lifestyle, and they would divorce in 1980.
(12) (Nostalgic songs score equally with the purely hedonistic songs on positive feelings evoked, but the nostalgic songs also score much higher on sadness.)
(13) A hedonist In his autumn, romance lightly worn, And now first signs of tristesse , Faint strains of a hunting horn.
(14) Hedonistic, vacuous, self-important and delusional.
(15) He left his children's mother for Emmanuelle star Sylvia Kristel , with whom he had a brief, hedonistic, tempestuous relationship with violence on both sides.
(16) It now has branches in London and New York, but this vast Dublin brewpub (with possibly the longest bar in the city) is the nerve centre for craft ales in the hedonistic Temple Bar neighbourhood.
(17) This was New York's last golden clubbing period before gentrification and Mayor Giuliani tore out its hedonistic soul… Frankie provided the soundtrack.
(18) He was the nonconformist hero of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros at the Royal Court in 2007 and the hedonistic historian in Rattigan’s After The Dance at the National in 2010 .
(19) It's no longer a hedonistic drug taken in nightclubs.
(20) If Christopher was louche, hedonistic and iconoclastic, Hitchens would be fastidious, puritanical and Christian.