Meanings
plural pamperings
- The act by which somebody is pampered.
After all, hospitality is natural to man. Amid the ten thousand pamperings that attend upon wealth, it is forgotten, because we have not need for it; but it is only suspended, and the moment it is necessary, it revives.
1837, Robert Plumer Ward, Illustrations of Human Life, page 104
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of pamper
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivegratifying tastes, appetites, or desires
nounthe act of indulging or gratifying a desire
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
pampering. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pampering
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