Word Meanings - SELF-INDULGENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Indulgence of one's appetites, desires, or inclinations; -- the opposite of self-restraint, and self-denial.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SELF-INDULGENCE)
- Pleasure
- Enjoyment
- gratification
- sensuality
- self-indulgence
- voluptuousness
- choice
- preference
- vill
- inclination
- purpose
- determination
- favor
- satisfaction
- indulgent
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SELF-INDULGENCE)
Related words: (words related to SELF-INDULGENCE)
- CHANCELLERY
Chancellorship. Gower. - HAZARDIZE
A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser. - REVOKER
One who revokes. - FAVOR
Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe. - PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - VENTURESOME
Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n. - CHOICELY
1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton. - FAVORITE
Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Farquhar. (more info) p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with - PURPOSE
1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer. - FAVORABLE
1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; - CHANCEFUL
Hazardous. Spenser. - MISCALCULATE
To calculate erroneously; to judge wrongly. -- Mis*cal`cu*la"tion, n. - FAVOREDNESS
Appearance. - GRATIFICATION
1. The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart. 2. That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment; - CHOICEFUL
Making choices; fickle. His choiceful sense with every change doth fit. Spenser. - CHANCE
Probability. Note: The mathematical expression, of a chance is the ratio of frequency with which an event happens in the long run. If an event may happen in a ways and may fail in b ways, and each of these a + b ways is equally likely, the chance, - CHANCELLORSHIP
The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor. - INDULGENTLY
In an indulgent manner; mildly; favorably. Dryden. - CHANCEL
lattices, crossbars. (The chancel was formerly inclosed with lattices That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed. Hence, in modern use; All that part of a cruciform church which is - DISVENTURE
A disadventure. Shelton. - AVENTURE
A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire. (more info) 1. Accident; chance; adventure. Chaucer. - ARCHCHANCELLOR
A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court. - ADVENTURESS
A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means. - SELF-DETERMINATION
Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity. - UNFAVORABLE
Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging. -- Un*fa"vor*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*fa"vor*a*bly, adv. - PERCHANCE
By chance; perhaps; peradventure. - UNSATISFACTION
Dissatisfaction. Bp. Hall. - PREDETERMINATION
The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.