INDULGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indulging mean? 

• INDULGING (noun)
  The noun INDULGING has 1 sense:

1. the act of indulging or gratifying a desire

  Familiarity information: INDULGING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDULGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of indulging or gratifying a desire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

humoring; indulgence; indulging; pampering

Hypernyms ("indulging" is a kind of...):

gratification (the act or an instance of satisfying)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "indulging"):

intemperance; intemperateness; self-indulgence (excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence)

excess; overindulgence (excessive indulgence)

binge; orgy; splurge (any act of immoderate indulgence)

Derivation:

indulge (yield (to); give satisfaction to)

indulge (treat with excessive indulgence)

 Context examples 

Unable of course to repress your curiosity in so favourable a moment for indulging it, you will instantly arise, and throwing your dressing-gown around you, proceed to examine this mystery.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mrs. Weston, with her baby on her knee, indulging in such reflections as these, was one of the happiest women in the world.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

To mend the matter, Hamlet's aunt had the family failing of indulging in soliloquy, and held forth in a desultory manner, by herself, on every topic that was introduced.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And for the space of several minutes he lay there, quiet, indulging his grotesque fancy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Another part of the fruit fly study shows that avoiding excess calorie intake, basically not over-indulging in too much carbohydrate and fat, may reduce levels of proinflammatory proteins.

(Defending against environmental stressors may shorten lifespan, National Institutes of Health)

Congratulating himself that a handsome repast had been ordered that morning, feeling sure that it would be ready to the minute, and indulging in pleasant anticipations of the charming effect it would produce, when his pretty wife came running out to meet him, he escorted his friend to his mansion, with the irrepressible satisfaction of a young host and husband.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You might want to take your children with you to a sunny location, or go alone and enjoy sleeping as long as you like, indulging in the hotel spa, and having delicious meals in the hotel.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

One of whom, having never before understood that Thornton was so soon and so completely to be his home, was pondering with downcast eyes on what it would be not to see Edmund every day; and the other, startled from the agreeable fancies she had been previously indulging on the strength of her brother's description, no longer able, in the picture she had been forming of a future Thornton, to shut out the church, sink the clergyman, and see only the respectable, elegant, modernised, and occasional residence of a man of independent fortune, was considering Sir Thomas, with decided ill-will, as the destroyer of all this, and suffering the more from that involuntary forbearance which his character and manner commanded, and from not daring to relieve herself by a single attempt at throwing ridicule on his cause.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Jennings, though forced, on examination, to acknowledge a temporary revival, tried to keep her young friend from indulging a thought of its continuance;—and Elinor, conning over every injunction of distrust, told herself likewise not to hope.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)