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)

• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake

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.