| Main Entry: | overindulgence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | debauchery |
Synonyms: |
depravity, dissipation, excess, gluttony, intemperance, orgy, overdrinking, overeating, satiation, satiety, spoiling |
| 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: | extravagance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indulgence; waste |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, amenity, dissipation, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expenditure, folly, frill, icing on the cake, immoderation, improvidence, lavishness, luxury, outrageousness, overdoing, overindulgence, overspending, preposterousness, prodigality, profligacy, profusion, recklessness, squander, squandering, superfluity, unreasonableness, unrestraint, unthrift, wastefulness, wildness |
Antonyms: |
economy, moderation, providence, saving, thrift, thriftiness |
| Main Entry: | orgy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebration devoted to sensual enjoyment |
Synonyms: |
bacchanal, bacchanalia, bender, binge*, blowout, bout*, carousal, circus, debauch, dissipation, excess, feast, fling*, indulgence, jag, merrymaking, overindulgence, party, rampage*, revel, revelry, saturnalia, splurge, spree, surfeit, tear* |
| Main Entry: | surfeit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
Synonyms: |
bellyful, glut, overabundance, overflow, overfullness, overindulgence, overkill, overmuch, overplus, plenitude, plethora, profusion, remainder, repletion, satiety, satisfaction, saturation, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, up to here |
| Notes: | plethora is too many of a good or bad thing and surfeit is too much of a good thing |
Antonyms: |
base, core, lack, main, necessity, need, want |
| Main Entry: | eating |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consuming |
Synonyms: |
binging, biting, chewing, consumption, devouring, dining, feasting on, feeding on, gluttony, gobbling, gorging on, gourmandization, having a meal, masticating, munching, nibbling, overindulgence, pigging out, snacking, stuffing oneself |
| Main Entry: | extravagancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
Synonyms: |
excessiveness, exorbitance, extravagance, extravagantness, inordinateness, lavishness, overabundance, overindulgence, overplus, overspending, plethora, prodigality, profuseness, profusion, superabundance, superfluity, superfluousness, surfeit, unreasonableness, waste, wastefulness |
| Main Entry: | prodigality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extravagance |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, amenity, dissipation, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expenditure, extravagancy, folly, frill, icing on the cake, immoderation, improvidence, lavishness, luxury, outrageousness, overdoing, overindulgence, overspending, preposterousness, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, recklessness, squander, squandering, superfluity, unreasonableness, unrestraint, unthrift, waste, wastefulness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | profligacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extravagance |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, amenity, dissipation, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expenditure, extravagancy, folly, frill, icing on the cake, immoderation, improvidence, lavishness, luxury, outrageousness, overdoing, overindulgence, overspending, preposterousness, prodigality, profuseness, profusion, recklessness, squander, squandering, superfluity, unreasonableness, unrestraint, unthrift, waste, wastefulness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | wastefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extravagance |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, amenity, dissipation, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expenditure, extravagancy, folly, frill, icing on the cake, immoderation, improvidence, lavishness, luxury, outrageousness, overdoing, overindulgence, overspending, preposterousness, prodigality, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, recklessness, squander, squandering, superfluity, unreasonableness, unrestraint, unthrift, waste, wildness |