wallowings
Immersions in feeling
Wallowings are instances of wallowing—rolling around in mud, water, or soft ground, as pigs or hippos do.
Extended to self-indulgent immersion in emotions or states: His endless wallowings in self-pity exhausted everyone around him.
The plural emphasizes repeated or prolonged episodes rather than a single instance.
Expensive nonessential comfort
- decadenceMoral decline through excess
- pleasureHappy, satisfied feeling
- indulgenceYielding to desire
- baskingWarming oneself pleasantly
reveling · immersion · hedonism · excess · opulence · abundance · bathing · languor
Exaggerated focus on own suffering
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
- despairTotal absence of hope
- indulgenceYielding to desire
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
sorrow · melancholy · brooding · depression · languishing · dwelling · rumination · sadness
luxury
Expensive nonessential comfort
- decadenceMoral decline through excess
- pleasureHappy, satisfied feeling
- indulgenceYielding to desire
basking · reveling · immersion · hedonism · excess · opulence · abundance · bathing · languor · sybaritic
self-pity
Exaggerated focus on own suffering
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
- despairTotal absence of hope
- indulgenceYielding to desire
grief · sorrow · melancholy · brooding · depression · languishing · dwelling · rumination · sadness · sulking
mud
Wet soil mixture
elephants · puddles · cooling · dust · bathing · rhinoceros · boars · warthogs · mire · swine
wallowingsabstentions
Formal refusals to vote
restraints · self-denials · moderations · asceticism · abstinences
wallowingsovercomings
Successful defeats of obstacles
rising above · transcendences · detachments · moving on · letting go