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Word Study
self-incrimination |
self-indignation |
self-induced |
self-inductance |
self-induction |
self-indulgence
| self-indulgent
| self-indulgently
| self-insurance
| self-interest
| self-interested
self-indulgence
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun self-indulgence has 2 senses
- self-indulgence(n = noun.attribute) indulgence - an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires; Array is a kind of indiscipline, undiscipline
- self-indulgence(n = noun.act) intemperance, intemperateness - excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence; "the intemperance of their language" has particulars: fling, spree, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, looseness, profligacy, jag
has particulars: luxury
Derived form adjective self-indulgent1
is a kind of humoring, indulgence, indulging, pampering
Derived form adjective self-indulgent1
CIDE DICTIONARY
self-indulgence, n.
Indulgence of one's appetites, desires, or inclinations; -- the opposite of self-restraint , and self-denial . [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
self-indulgence
acquisitiveness, amusement, animal pleasure, autism, bodily pleasure, careerism, carnal delight, comfort, content, contentment, coziness, crapulence, crapulency, crapulousness, creature comforts, drunkenness, ease, ego trip, egotism, endpleasure, enjoyment, entertainment, euphoria, excess, excessiveness, extravagance, forepleasure, fruition, fun, gluttony, graspingness, gratification, great satisfaction, greed, gusto, hearty enjoyment, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, incontinence, indiscipline, individualism, indulgence, inordinacy, inordinateness, intellectual pleasure, intemperance, intemperateness, interest, joie de vivre, keen pleasure, kicks, luxury, narcissism, onanism, overdoing, overindulgence, personal aims, personal ambition, personal desires, personalism, physical pleasure, pleasure, possessiveness, privatism, prodigality, quiet pleasure, relish, remoteness, satisfaction, self-absorption, self-admiration, self-advancement, self-centeredness, self-consideration, self-containment, self-devotion, self-esteem, self-gratification, self-interest, self-interestedness, self-jealousy, self-occupation, self-pleasing, self-seeking, self-serving, self-solicitude, self-sufficiency, selfishness, selfism, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure, sexual pleasure, sweetness of life, swinishness, titillation, too much, too-muchness, unconstraint, uncontrol, unrestraint, voluptuousness, well-being, zestROGET THESAURUS
self-indulgence
Selfishness
N selfishness, self-love, self-indulgence, self-worship, self-interest, egotism, egoism, amour propre, nepotism, worldliness, world wisdom, illiberality, meanness, time-pleaser, time-server, tuft- hunter, fortune-hunter, jobber, worldling, egotist, egoist, monopolist, nepotist, dog in the manger, charity that begins at home, canis in praesepi, foes to nobleness, temporizer, trimmer, selfish, self-seeking, self-indulgent, self-interested, self- centered, wrapped up in self, wrapt up in self, centered in self, egotistic, egotistical, egoistical, illiberal, mean, ungenerous, narrow-minded, mercenary, venal, covetous, unspiritual, earthly, earthly-minded, mundane, worldly, worldly- minded, worldly-wise, timeserving, interested, alieni appetens sui profusus, ungenerously, to gain some private ends, from interested motives, apres nous le deluge.
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