Indulge vs Indisposition - What's the difference?
indulge | indisposition |
: To yield to a temptation or desire.
To satisfy the wishes or whims of.
* Atterbury
To give way to (a habit or temptation); not to oppose or restrain.
To grant an extension to the deadline of a payment.
To grant as by favour; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.
* Jeremy Taylor
* Alexander Pope
a mild illness, the state of being indisposed
* 1751, Henry Fielding, Amelia
a bad mood or disposition
* 1597, Francis Bacon, Essays
As a verb indulge
is : to yield to a temptation or desire.As a noun indisposition is
a mild illness, the state of being indisposed.indulge
English
Verb
(indulg)- He looked at the chocolate but didn't indulge .
- I indulged in drinking on the weekend.
- Grandma indulges the kids with sweets.
- I love to indulge myself with beautiful clothes.
- Hope in another life implies that we indulge ourselves in the gratifications of this very sparingly.
- to indulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations
- persuading us that something must be indulged to public manners
- Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light / Indulge , dread Chaos, and eternal Night!
Synonyms
* (to satisfy the wishes of) coddle, cosset, pamper, spoil * See alsoAnagrams
* * ----indisposition
English
Noun
(en noun)- I was scarce sooner recovered from my indisposition than Amelia herself fell ill.
- Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition , and unpleasing to themselves?