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Indulgence vs Addict - What's the difference?

indulgence | addict |

As nouns the difference between indulgence and addict

is that indulgence is the act of indulging while addict is a person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.

As verbs the difference between indulgence and addict

is that indulgence is (roman catholic church ) to provide with an indulgence while addict is to cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug.

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.

    Related terms

    * indulge * indulgent

    Verb

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

    • addict

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug
  • * He is an addict when it comes to chocolate cookies.
  • An adherent or fan (of something)

    • Derived terms

    * cyberaddict * drug addict * sex addict

    Synonyms

    * (person who is addicted) junkie (one addicted to a drug), slave * (adherent or fan) adherent, aficionado, devotee, enthusiast, fan, habitue * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug
  • To involve oneself in something habitually, to the exclusion of almost anything else.
  • * (rfdate), (John Evelyn)
    • They addict themselves to the civil law.
  • * (rfdate) (Francis Beaumont) &
    • He is addicted to his study.
  • * (rfdate) (Adventurer)
    • That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations.
  • * (rfdate) (Thomas Fuller)
    • His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity.
  • * (rfdate), (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
    • A man gross ... and addicted to low company.
  • (obsolete) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.
  • * (rfdate) (John Evelyn)
  • * The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth.

    • Synonyms

    * get (someone) hooked * (devote) consecrate, dedicate, devote * (adapt) adapt, fit

    Derived terms

    * addicting * addictive

    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms