Indulgence

Noun

 * 1) the act of indulging
 * 2) tolerance
 * 3) catering to someone's every desire
 * 4) something in which someone indulges
 * 5) (Roman Catholic Church) a pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution

Related terms

 * indulge
 * indulgent

Verb

 * 1)  (Roman Catholic Church) to provide with an indulgence

Adjectives for Indulgence
idle; habitual; passing; social; partial; expensive; pampered; rare; caustic; plenary; legal; vicious; indeterminable; unseasonable; vile; unrestrained; sensual; excessive; prolonged; maternal; classic; immoral; pitying; polite; complaint; further; unaesthetic.

Verbs for Indulgence
abstain from—; beg—; check—; curb—; curse—; feast on—; grant—; humor with—; live in—; permit—; practise—; reproach for—; share in—; temper—; tempt to—; treat with—; wallow in—; yield to—; — fattens; —gratifies; —shackles; —weakens.

Thesaurus
acceptance, accommodatingness, agreeableness, allowance, attentiveness, benevolence, blank check, carte blanche, charitableness, charity, coddling, complaisance, concern, condonation, connivance, considerateness, consideration, copyright, cosseting, crapulence, crapulency, crapulousness, delicacy, dispensation, disregard, drunkenness, easiness, endurance, excess, excessiveness, extravagance, favor, favoring, forbearance, forbearing, forbearingness, forgiveness, forgivingness, fortitude, franchise, freedom, generousness, gluttony, grant, gratification, heedfulness, helpfulness, humoring, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, immunity, incontinence, indiscipline, inordinacy, inordinateness, intemperance, intemperateness, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, liberty, license, long-sufferance, long-suffering, longanimity, luxury, magnanimity, mindfulness, mollycoddling, obliging, obligingness, overdoing, overindulgence, overlooking, overpermissiveness, pampering, patent, patience, patience of Job, patientness, permissiveness, perseverance, pleasing, privilege, prodigality, profligacy, regard, regardfulness, self-control, self-gratification, self-indulgence, self-satisfaction, solicitousness, solicitude, special favor, spoiling, stoicism, sufferance, sweet reasonableness, swinishness, tact, tactfulness, thought, thoughtfulness, tolerance, toleration, too much, too-muchness, treat, unconstraint, uncontrol, understanding, unrestraint, unrevengefulness, waiting game, waiting it out, warrant, winking

Noun

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 * Romanian: îngăduire, tolerare


 * Romanian: indulgență


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 * Italian:
 * Korean: 면벌
 * Romanian: indulgență


 * : indulgencia