Indulgence

Quick meaning: Indulgence is a noun meaning The act of indulging.

Meaning

The act of indulging.

More Meanings

1. Tolerance.
2. The act of catering to someone's every desire.
3. A wish or whim satisfied.
4. Something in which someone indulges.
5. An indulgent act; a favour granted; gratification.
6. (Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
7. (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To provide with an indulgence.

Example Sentences

If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.

As indulgence in several wives depended mainly on the length of a man's purse, the poor naturally contented themselves with monogamy.

"In other words, the ONLY indulgences we'll be getting for a while is fixing your wardrobe. This means no new manga. No new games. Nothing. Get used to it."

I made but one error—giving way to petulance in the earlier instance; that lost me the Prince of Conti. Temper is bourgeois indulgence, though I own to a predilection for it.

Word Forms

• indulgences
• indulgency
• indulgement
• indulgencing
• indulgenced

Synonyms for indulgence

Depending on context, synonyms include folly, pleasing, leniency, lenience, tomfoolery, pampering.

Antonyms for indulgence

Common opposites include independent.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include self-indulgence, pleasing, pampering, lenience, leniency, tomfoolery.

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