epicurism

• Epicurism

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

epicurism (countable and uncountable, plural epicurisms)

1. 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.

Borrowed from French épicurisme.

epicurism n (uncountable)

1. Epicureanism