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| Main Entry: | indulgence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | luxury; gratification |
| Synonyms: | allowance, appeasement, attention, courtesy, endurance, excess, extravagance, favor, fondness, forbearance, fulfillment, goodwill, gratifying, hedonism, intemperance, kindness, leniency, partiality, patience, pleasing, privilege, satisfaction, service, tolerance, understanding, babying, coddling, favoring, fondling, immoderation, intemperateness, kowtowing, lenience, pampering, permissiveness, petting, placating, profligacy, profligateness, satiation, spoiling, toadying, toleration, treating |
| Antonyms: | abstention, care, moderation, temperance |
| Main Entry: | clemency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forgiveness |
| Synonyms: | charity, compassion, endurance, fairness, forbearance, gentleness, grace, humanity, indulgence, kindness, leniency, mercy, mildness, moderation, tenderness, tolerance, caritas, equitableness, justness, lenience, lenity, lifesaver, mercifulness, soft-heartedness, sufferance, toleration |
| Antonyms: | no mercy |
| Main Entry: | concession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | yielding, adjustment |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, admission, allowance, assent, authorization, boon, compromise, confession, deal, grant, indulgence, permission, permit, privilege, surrender, warrant, buyback, copout, giveback, giving in, rollback, sellout, trade-off |
| Antonyms: | denial, difference, disagreement, disputation, fighting, protest, refusal, repudiation |
| Main Entry: | debauchery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | immoral self-indulgence |
| Synonyms: | bender*, binge, blowout*, bust, carousal, depravity, dissipation, drunk*, excess, fornication, incontinence, indulgence, intemperance, intimacy, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, license, lust, orgy, overindulgence, revel, revelry, seduction, tear*, burning candle at both ends, dissoluteness, fast living, gluttony, la dolce vita, licentiousness, life in fast lane, sensuality, sybaritism |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, giving, unselfishness, mercifulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | favor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | approval, good opinion; help |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, account, admiration, aid, approbation, assistance, backing, benediction, benefit, benevolence, bias, blessing, boon, championship, compliment, consideration, cooperation, courtesy, dispensation, encouragement, esteem, estimation, friendliness, gift, good will*, grace, indulgence, kindness, largess, okay, partiality, patronage, present, regard, respect, service, support, token, benignity, good turn, obligement |
| Antonyms: | disapproval, disfavor |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gratification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | satisfaction |
| Synonyms: | delight, enjoyment, fruition, fulfillment, glee, hit, indulgence, joy, luxury, pleasure, recompense, relish, reward, thrill, kicks, regalement, sure shock |
| Antonyms: | disappointment, dissatisfaction, upset |
| Main Entry: | greed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming desire for more |
| Synonyms: | avarice, avidity, covetousness, craving, cupidity, eagerness, excess, hunger, indulgence, intemperance, longing, rapacity, selfishness, voracity, acquisitiveness, edacity, esurience, gluttony, gormandizing, graspingness, insatiableness, piggishness, ravenousness, swinishness, the gimmies |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, generosity |
| Main Entry: | joy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great happiness, pleasure |
| Synonyms: | amusement, animation, bliss, charm, cheer, comfort, delight, diversion, ecstasy, elation, exultation, felicity, festivity, frolic, fruition, gaiety, gem, gladness, glee, good humor, gratification, hilarity, humor, indulgence, jewel, liveliness, luxury, merriment, mirth, pride, prize, rapture, refreshment, rejoicing, revelry, satisfaction, solace, sport, transport, treasure, treat, wonder, alleviation, delectation, exulting, jubilance, pride and joy, ravishment, regalement |
| Antonyms: | sadness, sorrow, unhappiness, woe |
| Main Entry: | latitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom, room to move; scope |
| Synonyms: | breadth, compass, elbow room, extent, independence, indulgence, laxity, leeway, liberty, license, margin, play, range, reach, room, run, space, span, spread, sweep, swing, width, run of, unrestrictedness |
| Antonyms: | limitation, restriction |
| Main Entry: | merriment/merrymaking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enjoyment, amusement |
| Synonyms: | brawl, cheerfulness, conviviality, festivity, frolic, fun, gaiety, glee, happiness, hilarity, hoopla*, indulgence, jollity, joy, laughter, levity, liveliness, mirth, picnic, recreation, revel, revelry, self-indulgence, shindig, sport, buffoonery, fun and games, jocularity, jocundity, joviality, laughs, whoopee, wingding |
| Antonyms: | sadness, sorrow, unhappiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | orgy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebration devoted to sensual enjoyment |
| Synonyms: | bacchanal, bender*, binge*, blowout*, bout*, carousal, circus*, debauch, dissipation, excess, feast, fling*, indulgence, jag*, merrymaking, overindulgence, party, rampage*, revel, revelry, saturnalia, splurge, spree, surfeit, tear*, bacchanalia |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pardon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forgiveness |
| Synonyms: | absolution, acquittal, allowance, amnesty, anchor, clemency, commute, discharge, excuse, exoneration, forbearance, freeing, grace, indemnity, indulgence, justification, kindness, mercy, release, remission, reprieve, vindication, conciliation, condonation, exculpation, indemnification, lifeboat, lifesaver |
| Notes: | a pardon is the act of excusing a mistake or offense; an excuse is an explanation offered to justify or obtain forgiveness |
| Antonyms: | condemnation, damning, penalty, punishment, chastisement, ostracization |
| Main Entry: | permission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authorization, consent |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, acknowledgment, acquiescence, admission, agreement, allowance, approbation, approval, assent, avowal, carte blanche*, concession, concurrence, dispensation, endorsement, freedom, imprimatur, indulgence, leave, liberty, license, okay, permit, privilege, promise, recognition, rubber stamp*, sanction, tolerance, verification, warrant, canonization, condonance, condonation, empowerment, letting, sanctification, stamp of approval, sufferance, toleration |
| Antonyms: | denial, prohibition, veto |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | permit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authorization |
| Synonyms: | admittance, allowance, charter, concession, consent, favor, franchise, go-ahead*, grant, green light*, indulgence, leave, liberty, license, pass, passport, patent, permission, privilege, sanction, warrant, empowering, legalization, safe-conduct, sufferance, toleration, visa |
| Antonyms: | prohibition, grounding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | satisfaction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving or enjoying a state of comfort, content |
| Synonyms: | achievement, amends, amusement, atonement, bliss, cheerfulness, comfort, compensation, complacency, contentment, delight, ease, enjoyment, fulfillment, gladness, gratification, happiness, indulgence, joy, justice, peace of mind, pleasure, pride, recompense, redress, refreshment, reimbursement, relief, reparation, resolution, reward, serenity, settlement, vindication, well-being, conciliation, contentedness, good fortune, indemnification, propitiation, repletion, satiety |
| Antonyms: | discontent, dissatisfaction, need, unhappiness, want |
| Main Entry: | hedonism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sensualism |
| Synonyms: | debauchery, enjoyment, gratification, indulgence, pleasure, epicureanism |
| Main Entry: | incontinence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | debauchery |
| Synonyms: | indulgence, lechery, lewdness, dissoluteness, unrestraint |
| Main Entry: | merriment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement |
| Synonyms: | brawl, cheerfulness, conviviality, enjoyment, festivity, frolic, fun, gaiety, glee, happiness, hilarity, hoopla, indulgence, jollity, joy, laughter, levity, liveliness, merrymaking, mirth, picnic, recreation, revel, revelry, self-indulgence, shindig, sport, tomfoolery, buffoonery, grins, jocularity, jocundity, joviality, laughs, whoopee, wingding |
| Antonyms: | gloom, misery |
| Main Entry: | laxity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | looseness |
| Synonyms: | indecision, indifference, indulgence, leniency, laxness |
| Main Entry: | thoughtfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consideration |
| Synonyms: | helpfulness, indulgence, kindness, understanding |
| Antonyms: | thoughtlessness, inconsiderateness, unthoughtfulness |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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