How do you say hedonism

As used today, the word frequently carries a judgmental tinge. If someone is described as living a life of hedonism , the implication is that he or she derives happiness from debauchery rather than, say, spending quality time with family or forming meaningful relationships at work.

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Two clicks install ». Quiz Are you a words master? Those avatars of hedonism , The Europeans, are aghast at discovering that the average American vacation lasts for just 4. But the pleasures of vengeance and hedonism prove a dead end for Wanda. After a night of hedonism , head out into Louisiana's Cajun Country. It is comparatively easy at the present time in moral theory to slam both hedonism and apriorism. Utilitarianism has been rightly called universal hedonism , as distinguished from the hedonism of Epicurus, which was egoistic.

Had she her secrets, as he had his, the secrets of his sullen hedonism? I've only heard the 'heed' version in AE. It wouldn't surprise me to hear a different pronunciation from someone with a different accent. I too have always pronounced it head-onism EDIT: I shall carry on pronouncing it head-onism.

Bugger the OED. Not literally, please. As I don't believe I have ever heard anyone use the word, and I always believed the pronunciation to be "headonism" I will change my understanding, but I will never have to change my reading, if by some mischance I come across it again. Thank goodness.

Thankyou everyone. I'm now convinced it's "heedonism" , and I'll have to watch how it say it. Not that I indulge much these days, you understand, but at least I'll be able to say it right!.

Katie: I've taken the liberty of adding a Poll to your thread An interesting possibly discussion could arise from this thread: to what extent are dictionaries 'right' regarding pronunciation? Might the experts conceivably be wrong?

But the Moderators might not approve. Thanks Ewie. I've placed my vote. I may start another thread because there is another word that I'd be interested to see if anyone BE pronounces the same as me, but time marches on, and I must be on my way to work now. I applaud the decision of those who are going to defy the OED and stick to that to which they're accustomed. For one, I don't particularly think that "heed-onistic" is more euphonious and thus see little reason to abandon a perfectly serviceable pronunciation.

Thanks, Bibbles and welcome 'home', by the way. I should point out that the purpose of the poll is not to try and find a 'right' or 'wrong' pronunciation of the word, merely to ascertain how many people disagree with the experts. Unless I've missed someone it looks like every Brit says "head" and every Yank says "heed".

We then also have a Canadian coming down in favour of "head" but isn't sure of actually saying it out loud before.