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Fixation vs Indulgence - What's the difference?

fixation | indulgence |

As nouns the difference between fixation and indulgence

is that fixation is the act of fixing while indulgence is the act of indulging.

As a verb indulgence is

(Roman Catholic Church) to provide with an indulgence.

fixation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of fixing.
  • The state of being fixed or fixated.
  • The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of volatile elements.
  • The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
  • In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat.
  • A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing.
  • (legal) Recording a creative work in a medium of expression for more than a transitory duration, thereby satisfying the "fixation" requirement for the purposes of copyright law.
  • In order to obtain copyright on a recording in the United States, the recording must have been reduced to fixation on or after February 15, 1972.

    Synonyms

    * (state of being fixed) fixedness

    Antonyms

    * (act of fixing) movement, change

    indulgence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the act of indulging
  • * Hammond
  • They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less.
  • tolerance
  • catering to someone's every desire
  • something in which someone indulges
  • An indulgent act; favour granted; gratification.
  • * Rogers
  • If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.
  • (Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 555:
  • To understand how indulgences were intended to work depends on linking together a number of assumptions about sin and the afterlife, each of which individually makes considerable sense.

    Verb

    (indulgenc)
  • (Roman Catholic Church ) to provide with an indulgence