See hedonism on Wiktionary
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"english": "hedonistic",
"word": "hedonistisk"
},
{
"english": "Epicureanism",
"word": "epikurism"
},
{
"english": "eudaemonism",
"word": "eudemonism"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Swedish common-gender nouns",
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish lemmas",
"Swedish links with redundant alt parameters",
"Swedish links with redundant wikilinks",
"Swedish nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"hedonism (philosophically or more generally)"
],
"links": [
[
"hedonism",
"hedonism#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"wikipedia": [
"sv:hedonism"
]
}
],
"word": "hedonism"
}
Download raw JSONL data for hedonism meaning in All languages combined (13.4kB)
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive-dative'",
"path": [
"hedonism"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "hedonism",
"trace": ""
}
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