Satisfying vs Indulgence - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between satisfying and indulgence

is that satisfying is present participle of lang=en while indulgence is (Roman Catholic Church) to provide with an indulgence.

As an adjective satisfying

is that satisfies, gratifies, pleases or comforts.

As a noun indulgence is

the act of indulging.

satisfying

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

That satisfies]], [[gratify, gratifies, pleases or comforts.

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Antonyms

* dissatisfying * unsatisfying

Verb

(head)

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