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self-indulgence  noun [mass noun]1The quality of being self-indulgent: self-indulgence needs to be guarded against...- Thirty years ago Aron worried about a kind of hedonistic self-indulgence characteristic of decadent societies.
- It's a distended medley of uproars, asinine taunts, genuine skill, charm, and self-indulgence.
- The cast approaches the material with relish and Polanski prevents broad characterisations and self-indulgence amongst his actors.
1.1 [count noun] Something done or allowed in a self-indulgent way: simple-minded pleasures and self-indulgences...- With our junk food, lack of exercise, self-indulgences and self-imposed stress, many of our old folk will outlive their sons, daughters and even grandchildren.
- Well, I have to snap out of all sorts of self-indulgences today.
- He is also forbidden the self-indulgences of most monarchs including the acquisition of large harems of wives, stocks of silver and gold, or large stables of horses for military adventures.
Synonyms hedonism, indulgence, pursuit of pleasure, pleasure-seeking, luxury, lotus-eating, epicureanism, self-gratification; lack of self-restraint, intemperance, intemperateness, immoderation, overindulgence, overconsumption, excess, extravagance, the high life, high living, licence, licentiousness, sensualism, voluptuousness, dissipation, dissoluteness, decadence rare sybaritism |