hedonics

American  

[hee-don-iks] / hiˈdɒn ɪks /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. the branch of psychology that deals with pleasurable and unpleasurable states of consciousness.

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hedonics British  

/ hiːˈdɒnɪks /

noun

1. the branch of psychology concerned with the study of pleasant and unpleasant sensations

2. (in philosophy) the study of pleasure, esp in its relation to duty

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Etymology

Origin of hedonics

First recorded in 1860–65; hedonic, -ics

Example Sentences

Before you focus too much on my hedonics—no worries there, I assure you—it’s more pertinent to recall the pragmatic, less hedonistic, side of sex: Sex produces offspring.

From Salon

This may help us to understand better the relations between aesthetics and hedonics, and the nature of that objectification in which we have placed the difference between beauty and pleasure.

From Project Gutenberg

But I hold that aesthetics is but a corner of a larger field that is seldom even named among the sciences of mind; I mean human happiness as a whole, "eudaemonics," or "hedonics," or whatever you please to call it.

From Project Gutenberg