indulgences
Treats you allow
Indulgences are things you allow yourself to enjoy, often luxuries or pleasures you might otherwise deny: chocolate is my one indulgence, a weekend of indulgences.
The word implies mild excess or self-gratification.
In Catholic theology, an indulgence is the remission of temporal punishment for sins—the sale of which famously sparked the Protestant Reformation.
Therapeutic wellness facility
- pamperingLavish attentive care
- splurgeSpend freely, impulsively
- extravaganceExcessive, wasteful spending
- opulenceShowy, abundant prosperity
decadence · lavishness · champagne · caviar · silk · cashmere · massage · gourmet
Formal clearing of guilt
- penanceSelf-mortification for wrongdoing
- confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
- remissionTemporary disease absence
- dispensationOfficial permission to skip rules
pardons · sins · salvation · grace · redemption · reformation · Luther · theses
Compassion toward offenders
- clemencyMerciful treatment of offenders
- toleranceWillingness to accept difference
- forgivenessReleasing resentment toward offenders
- patienceCalm during delays
forbearance · permissiveness · lenience · understanding · liberality · softness · gentleness · latitude
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Therapeutic wellness facility
- pamperingLavish attentive care
- splurgeSpend freely, impulsively
- extravaganceExcessive, wasteful spending
opulence · decadence · lavishness · champagne · caviar · silk · cashmere · massage · gourmet · first-class
absolution
Formal clearing of guilt
- penanceSelf-mortification for wrongdoing
- confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
- remissionTemporary disease absence
dispensation · pardons · sins · salvation · grace · redemption · reformation · Luther · theses · plenary
mercy
Compassion toward offenders
- clemencyMerciful treatment of offenders
- toleranceWillingness to accept difference
- forgivenessReleasing resentment toward offenders
patience · forbearance · permissiveness · lenience · understanding · liberality · softness · gentleness · latitude · leeway
chocolate
Sweet from cacao seeds
candy · sweets · pastry · truffle · brownie · gelato · macaron · cupcake · doughnut · eclair
- Catholic controversiesabuse scandal, sexual abuse, pedophilia, cover-ups, coverups
- Catholic ChurchVatican, papacy, cardinals, popes, papal
- CatholicismVatican, cardinals, pope, Holy Communion, popes
- medieval lifechivalry, royal courts, jousting, knighthood, falconry
- religionChristianity, Islam, beliefs, Judaism, Hinduism
- indulgenceschocolate cake, massage, decadence, facial, excess
indulgencesabstinences
Practices of self-denial
austerities · deprivations · restraints · self-discipline · asceticism
indulgencesnecessities
What you cannot lack
essentials · basics · staples · requirements · needs
indulgencesintolerances
Inability to process something
severities · prohibitions · disciplines · restrictions · refusals
- guilty indulgencePleasure tinged with shame
- sinful indulgence
- papal indulgencesChurch-granted sin remission
- excessive indulgenceImmoderate gratification of desires