selfindulgence

plural selfindulgences

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of self-indulgence.

   A well ordered Conversation is in Reality, and upon the whole, the highest possible Selfindulgence.

   1770, Benjamin Williams, Discourses on various subjects, page 141

   3 more examples

   Towards the end, the earnest nature of the quest led some, like Charles Borde, to open parody of ascensional eroticism, while still others, like Greuze, transformed it into a mawkish disguise for selfindulgence in which all sense of equilibrium between inner and outer was lost.

   1995, Clive Hart, Kay Gilliland Stevenson, Heaven and the Flesh: Imagery of Desire from the Renaissance to the Rococo

   We should firmly oppose going through the motions, excessive bureaucracy, selfindulgence, and extravagance, resolutely combat corruption and other misconduct, preserve Communists’ political integrity, and dedicate ourselves to the cause of the Party and the people.

   2013, Address to the First Session of the 12th National People’s Congress

   Like the waltzer, the narrator in “A Telephone Call” is her own worst enemy. Suffering from too much time on her hands—she is evidently not occupied with a job or responsibility for anyone but herself—she can afford the selfindulgence to spend hours focused exclusively on the dubious prospect of a phone call.

   2020 June 22, Nasrullah Mambrol, “Analysis of Dorothy Parker’s Stories”, in Literary Theory and Criticism