wallowing
Rolling in mud
Wallowing is the present participle of wallow, which means to roll around or lie in something, typically mud, water, or loose material—as pigs famously do.
The word extends to emotional states: if you're wallowing in self-pity or misery, you're indulging in that feeling rather than trying to move past it.
She spent the weekend wallowing in sadness after the breakup.
The term usually carries a note of judgment, suggesting excess or lack of effort to improve one's situation.
Intense prolonged distress
- despairTotal absence of hope
- broodingAnxiously dwelling on something
- mopingBrooding in dejection
- lamentingExpressing passionate grief
sulking · victimhood · self-indulgence · melancholy · dejection · gloom · sorrow · regret
misery
Intense prolonged distress
lamenting · sulking · victimhood · self-indulgence · melancholy · dejection · gloom · sorrow · regret · hopelessness
swamp
Waterlogged land with vegetation
sludge · marsh · ooze · silt · muck · peat · mudhole · pigsty · waterhole · slop
reveling
Lively, uninhibited celebration
- baskingWarming oneself pleasantly
- luxuriatingEnjoying something extravagantly
- savoringEnjoying something slowly
relishing · immersing · steeping · bathing · drowning · excess · decadence · hedonism · gratification · pleasure
- animal behaviorsswimming, running, walking, jumping, flying
- seamanshipseamanship, steering, anchoring, navigation, chartwork
- mopingbrooding, sulking, pouting, sighing, moping
- despairdespair, hopelessness, desolation, despondency, dejection
- indulgenceindulgence, indulge, indulgent, self-indulgent, overindulgence
- instinctsinstinct, survival instinct, survival instincts, maternal instinct, gut instinct
wallowingcomposure
Emotional self-control
restraint · self-control · stoicism · keeping it together · emotional regulation
wallowingtaking action
Initiating purposeful effort
moving forward · pressing on · overcoming · rising above · pushing through
wallowingresilience
Capacity to recover quickly
bouncing back · rising · thriving · recovering · persevering