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English
Etymology
From Latin Epicurismus, from Epicurus + -ismus (“-ism”). Equivalent to epicure + -ism.
Noun
epicurism (countable and uncountable, plural epicurisms)
- Synonym of Epicureanism.
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):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.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French épicurisme.
Noun
epicurism n (uncountable)
- Epicureanism
Declension
declension of epicurism (singular only)
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(un) epicurism
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epicurismul
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(unui) epicurism
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epicurismului
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epicurismule
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