| Main Entry: | indulgence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | luxury; gratification |
Synonyms: |
allowance, appeasement, attention, babying, coddling, courtesy, endurance, excess, extravagance, favor, favoring, fondling, fondness, forbearance, fulfillment, goodwill, gratifying, hedonism, immoderation, intemperance, intemperateness, kindness, kowtowing, lenience, leniency, pampering, partiality, patience, permissiveness, petting, placating, pleasing, privilege, profligacy, profligateness, satiation, satisfaction, service, spoiling, toadying, tolerance, toleration, treating, understanding |
Antonyms: |
abstention, care, moderation, temperance |
| Main Entry: | charity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindness, compassion |
Synonyms: |
affection, agape, altruism, amity, attachment, benevolence, benignity, bountifulness, bounty, caritas, clemency, fellow feeling, generosity, goodness, goodwill, grace, humaneness, humanity, indulgence, kindliness, lenity, love, magnanimity, mercy, tenderheartedness |
Antonyms: |
malevolence, uncharitableness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | clemency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forgiveness |
Synonyms: |
caritas, charity, compassion, endurance, equitableness, fairness, forbearance, gentleness, grace, humanity, indulgence, justness, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, lifesaver, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, moderation, soft-heartedness, sufferance, tenderness, tolerance, toleration |
Antonyms: |
no mercy |
| Main Entry: | concession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | yielding, adjustment |
Synonyms: |
acknowledgment, admission, allowance, assent, authorization, boon, buyback, compromise, confession, copout, deal, giveback, giving in, grant, indulgence, permission, permit, privilege, rollback, sellout, surrender, trade-off, warrant |
Antonyms: |
denial, difference, disagreement, disputation, fighting, protest, refusal, repudiation |
| Main Entry: | courtesy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good manners |
Synonyms: |
address, affability, amenities, amiability, attentiveness, ceremony, chivalry, civility, comity, complaisance, consideration, cordiality, courteousness, courtliness, cultivation, culture, deference, elegance, familiarity, favor, friendliness, gallantness, gallantry, generosity, geniality, gentleness, good behavior, good breeding, graciousness, indulgence, kindness, polish, politeness, refinement, respect, reverence, solicitude, suavity, sympathy, tact, thoughtfulness, urbanity |
Antonyms: |
bad manners, discourtesy, impoliteness, pompousness, rudeness, unmannerliness |
| Main Entry: | debauchery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | immoral self-indulgence |
Synonyms: |
bender, binge, blowout, burning candle at both ends, bust, carousal, depravity, dissipation, dissoluteness, drunk*, excess, fast living, fornication, gluttony, incontinence, indulgence, intemperance, intimacy, la dolce vita, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, license, licentiousness, life in fast lane, lust, orgy, overindulgence, revel, revelry, seduction, sensuality, sybaritism, tear* |
Antonyms: |
benevolence, giving, mercifulness, unselfishness |
| Main Entry: | delicacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delicious, gourmet food |
Synonyms: |
ambrosia, banquet, bonne bouche, dainty, delight, dessert, feast, goody, indulgence, luxury, morsel, nectar, pleasure, rarity, regale, relish, savory, special, sweet, tidbit, treat |
| Main Entry: | dispensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allocation of supply |
Synonyms: |
allotment, appointment, apportionment, award, bestowal, conferment, consignment, courtesy, dealing out, disbursement, distribution, dole, endowment, favor, indulgence, kindness, part, portion, quota, service, share |
| Main Entry: | dispensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | permission |
Synonyms: |
exception, exemption, immunity, indulgence, license, privilege, relaxation, relief, remission, reprieve |
Antonyms: |
denial, veto |
| Main Entry: | dissipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wantonness |
Synonyms: |
abandonment, debauchery, dissoluteness, dissolution, drunkenness, evil, excess, extravagance, free-living, high-living, indulgence, intemperance, lavishness, life in the fast lane, prodigality, profligacy, self-gratification, squandering, to hell in handbasket, waste |
Antonyms: |
unselfishness, virtue |