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epicurism en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Synonym 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):

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Synonyms

Epicureanism