Fixation vs Indulgence - What's the difference?
fixation | indulgence |
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.
the act of indulging
* Hammond
tolerance
catering to someone's every desire
something in which someone indulges
An indulgent act; favour granted; gratification.
* Rogers
(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:
(Roman Catholic Church ) to provide with an 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)- 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) fixednessAntonyms
* (act of fixing) movement, changeindulgence
English
Noun
(en noun)- They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less.
- If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.
- 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.