Usually means: Yielding to desires or whims.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word indulgence:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. indulgence: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. indulgence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. indulgence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. indulgence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. indulgence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Indulgence, indulgence: Wordnik
  7. indulgence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. indulgence: Wiktionary
  9. indulgence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. indulgence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. indulgence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. indulgence: Dictionary.com
  13. indulgence: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. indulgence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Indulgence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Indulgence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. indulgence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. indulgence: Rhymezone
  19. Indulgence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. indulgence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. indulgence: Free Dictionary
  22. indulgence: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. indulgence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. indulgence: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. indulgence: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. indulgence: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. indulgence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. indulgence: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See indulgences as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of indulging.
noun:  Tolerance.
noun:  The act of catering to someone's every desire.
noun:  A wish or whim satisfied.
noun:  Something in which someone indulges.
noun:  An indulgent act; a favour granted; gratification.
noun:  (Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
verb:  (transitive, Roman Catholicism) to provide with an indulgence

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