Synonyms for INDULGENCE
ɪnˈdʌl dʒənsin·dul·gence

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. indulgence, self-indulgencenoun

   an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires

   Synonyms:
   leniency, indulgence, self-indulgence, intemperance, foolery, pampering, lenience, tomfoolery, indulging, humoring, lunacy, folly, craziness, intemperateness

2. indulgence, lenience, leniencynoun

   a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone

   "too much indulgence spoils a child"

   Synonyms:
   leniency, mildness, self-indulgence, foolery, pampering, lenience, tomfoolery, indulging, indulgence, humoring, lunacy, folly, craziness, lenity

3. indulgence, indulging, pampering, humoringnoun

   the act of indulging or gratifying a desire

   Synonyms:
   leniency, indulgence, self-indulgence, foolery, pampering, lenience, tomfoolery, indulging, humoring, lunacy, folly, craziness

4. folly, foolery, tomfoolery, craziness, lunacy, indulgencenoun

   foolish or senseless behavior

   Synonyms:
   lunacy, foolishness, flakiness, indulging, daftness, madness, lenience, pampering, stupidity, humoring, leniency, foolery, tomfoolery, self-indulgence, folly, craziness, insaneness, indulgence, imbecility, unwiseness, betise

5. indulgencenoun

   the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution

   "in the Middle Ages the unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners became a widespread abuse"

   Synonyms:
   leniency, self-indulgence, foolery, pampering, lenience, tomfoolery, indulging, humoring, lunacy, folly, craziness

Matched Categories

1. • Roman Catholic
   • Absolution
   • Gratification
   • Indiscipline
   • Permissiveness
   • Play

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. indulgencenoun

   Synonyms:
   gratification, humoring, pampering, cockering

2. indulgencenoun

   Synonyms:
   favor, liberality, lenity, lenience, kindness, tenderness

3. indulgencenoun

   Synonyms:
   (Theol.) remission, absolution, forgiveness, pardon

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. indulgencenoun

   Synonyms:
   humoring, pampering, gratification, kindness, favor, lenity, forbearance, absolution

   Antonyms:
   mortification, denial, restraint, non-indulgence

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:4.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "indulgence":

   leniency, forbearance, patience, complacency, tolerance, benevolence

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How to use INDULGENCE in a sentence?

1. Peter McWilliams:

   Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

2. John Boswell:

   The New Testament takes no demonstrable position on homosexuality. To suggest that Paul's references to excesses of sexual indulgence involving homosexual behavior are indicative of a general position in opposition to same-sex eroticism is as unfounded as arguing that his condemnation of drunkenness implies opposition to the drinking of wine.

3. Harriet Beecher Stowe:

   So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

4. Ryo Okumura:

   If I get the virus, I get the virus, i can't just stop. It's an indulgence.

5. Emily Thornberry:

   Under a Labour foreign office, I can ... guarantee that there will be no indulgence of human rights abuses because they are committed by less powerful countries or by countries that call themselves socialists but who by their actions betray every socialist ideal.