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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | immoral self-indulgence |
| Synonyms: | bender, binge, blowout, burning candle at both ends, bust, carousal, depravity, dissipation, dissoluteness, drunk*, excess, fast living, fornication, gluttony, incontinence, indulgence, intemperance, intimacy, la dolce vita, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, license, licentiousness, life in fast lane, lust, orgy, overindulgence, revel, revelry, seduction, sensuality, sybaritism, tear* |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, giving, mercifulness, unselfishness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dissipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wantonness |
| Synonyms: | abandonment, debauchery, dissoluteness, dissolution, drunkenness, evil, excess, extravagance, free-living, high-living, indulgence, intemperance, lavishness, life in the fast lane, prodigality, profligacy, self-gratification, squandering, to hell in handbasket, waste |
| Antonyms: | unselfishness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | badness, immorality; disaster |
| Synonyms: | affliction, baseness, blow, calamity, catastrophe, corruption, crime, criminality, curse, debauchery, depravity, devilry, diablerie, diabolism, harm, hatred, heinousness, hurt, ill, impiety, indecency, infamy, iniquity, injury, knavery, lewdness, licentiousness, looseness, malevolence, malignity, meanness, mischief, misery, misfortune, obscenity, outrage, pain, perversity, ruin, sin, sinfulness, sorrow, suffering, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainy, wickedness, woe, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | good, goodness, morality, virtue |
| Main Entry: | excess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overindulgence in personal desires |
| Synonyms: | debauchery, dissipation, dissoluteness, exorbitance, extravagance, extreme, extremity, immoderacy, immoderation, indulgence, inordinateness, intemperance, overdoing, prodigality, saturnalia, self-indulgence, unrestraint |
| Antonyms: | deprivation, economy, frugality, moderation, privation |
| Main Entry: | lechery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lewdness |
| Synonyms: | carnality, debauchery, lasciviousness, libertinism, licentiousness, lust, lustfulness, raunchiness, salaciousness, wantonness |
| Main Entry: | license |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandon, indulgence |
| Synonyms: | anarchy, animalism, arrogance, audacity, boldness, complacency, debauchery, disorder, effrontery, excess, forwardness, gluttony, immoderation, impropriety, irresponsibility, lawlessness, laxity, looseness, presumptuousness, prodigality, profligacy, refractoriness, relaxation, relaxedness, sauciness, self-indulgence, sensuality, slackness, temerity, unrestraint, unruliness, wantonness, wildness |
| Antonyms: | reason |
| Main Entry: | perversion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexual abnormality |
| Synonyms: | aberration, anomaly, corruption, debauchery, deviance, fetish, immorality, kink, kinkiness, sexual deviation |
| Main Entry: | revelry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | merrymaking |
| Synonyms: | carousal, carouse, celebration, debauch, debauchery, entertainment, festival, festivity, fun, gaiety, high jinks, jollification, jollity, party, reveling, revelment, saturnalia, spree, whoop-de-do, whoopla |
| Antonyms: | mourning, sadness, sobriety |
| Main Entry: | turpitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depravity |
| Synonyms: | baseness, corruption, criminality, debasement, debauchery, degradation, evil, immorality, improbity, lewdness, licentiousness, perversion, sinfulness, vice, viciousness, vileness, wickedness |
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