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4. pamper, cocker, coddle, spoil, cater to, baby; pet, fondle, cosset, caress; cajole, wheedle, coax, flatter; curry favor, Inf bootlick, fawn, toady to, Inf. butter up, Inf. sweet-talk, Inf. soft-soap, SI. suck up to.
5. indulge in give oneself up to, give loose rein to, give license to, wallow in, revel in.
indulgence, n. 1. self-gratification, dissipation, intemperance, intemperateness, immoderation, immoderateness; prodigality, extravagance, profligateness, unrestraint, excess; voluptuousness, sensuality, sybaritism, epicureanism; dissoluteness, licentiousness; animalism, debauchery, crapulousness, crapulence; inebriety, drunkenness, intoxication; fast living, high living, free living, fastness; carousal, revelry, riotousness, saturnalia, spree, orgy, debauch.
2. satisfaction, gratification, appeasement, satiation, fulfillment, relief.
3. favor, courtesy, kindness, good will; allowance, permission, sufferance; toleration, tolerance, endurance, Obs. patience, forbearance, forgiveness, excuse; leniency, lenity, liberality; clemency, mercy, quarter; privilege, grant, license.
4. obliging, humoring, favoring, fostering; going along with, complying with; waiting on or upon, attending, ministering to, pandering to, serving, working for; pampering, coddling, spoiling, catering to, babying; petting, fondling, caressing.
5. considerateness, humanity, hospitality; gentleness, tenderness, fondness, mildness; compassion, empathy, sympathy, charity.
indulgent, adj. 1. permissive, lenient, liberal, lax, easy; tolerant, allowing, permitting, suffering; enduring, Archaic, forbearing, forgiving, excusing, sparing; merciful, compassionate, clement; conciliatory, placatory, placating; amiable, amicable, complaisant, genial, agreeable, well-disposed; inclined, Archaic, pro-pense, disposed, predisposed, favorably disposed; willing, Archaic, fain, in the mood, minded.
2. obliging, humoring, favoring, fostering; pampering, coddling, spoiling, catering; petting, fondling, caressing; considerate, humane, hospitable, courteous, kind, patient; empathetic, sympathetic, charitable, generous, unselfish; benevolent, benign, pleasing, pleasant, gracious; gentle, fond, tender, mild, easygoing, pacific, tender-hearted.
3. self-gratifying, dissipating, intemperate, immoderate; prodigal, extravagant, profligate, unrestrained, unbridled, excessive, inordinate; voluptuous, sensual, luxurious, sybaritic, epicurean, carnal; riotous, fast, wild, carousing; dissolute, dissipated, licentious, debauched, lascivious, wanton, lustful, concupiescent, libidinous, salacious, lecherous, goatish; animalistic, gluttonous, crapulous, crapulent; drunk, sottish, inebrious, intoxicated, Inf. boozy, winebibbing.
4. satisfying, gratifying, appeasing, satiating, fulfilling, relieving; yielding, complying, acquiescing.
indurate, v. 1. harden, make hard, strengthen, stiffen, starch, thicken; temper, steel, toughen, vulcanize; ossify, petrify, fossilize, Archaic, lapidify; calcify, vitrify, crystallize.
2. inure, accustom, condition, season, set; habituate, caseharden, train, addict, indoctrinate, acclimate.
-adj. 3. hardened, hard, adamantine, steely, callous, strong; stony, gritty, flinty, granitic, rocky, stony, concrete; horny, corneous, bony, cartilaginous, Archaic, lapidific, osseous, sclerotic; vitreous, crystalline, aphanitic, porphyritic.
4. rigid, obstinate, stubborn, obdurate, recusant; unfeeling, cold, frigid, chilled; remorseless, unrepentant, impenitent, uncontrite; incorrigible, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irremissible.
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