OVERINDULGENCE Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

overindulgence

noun

Definition of overindulgence

as in immoderation

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as in wastefulness

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Recent Examples of overindulgence Their overindulgence allowed filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh and Robert Rodriguez to emerge and find an audience for scrappy and transgressive stories. — Brent Lang, Variety, 15 July 2026 The ideal solution involves removing friction while subtly protecting against overindulgence, allowing individuals to choose based on their self-regulation needs. — Roger Dooley, Forbes.com, 5 June 2026 Gratitude for abundance can veer into overindulgence as the moon clashes with Jupiter. — Usa Today, USA Today, 13 Mar. 2026 The Bible never calls wine evil – only the overindulgence of it. — Lauren Green, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for overindulgence

Recent Examples of Synonyms for overindulgence

Noun

Rather, the term has come to stand for a range of attributes—intemperance, ordinariness, outsiderness, likability, spontaneity—that aren’t especially related philosophically, either to authenticity or to one another.

— Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 5 June 2026
The power to issue absolute pardons, explicitly stipulated in the founding document, has been exploited with bipartisan intemperance.

— Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025

Definition of intemperance

Noun

This is consistent with the film’s overarching preoccupation with greed, which here takes the form of gluttony.

— Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 16 July 2026
The bicentennial was the moment of nostalgic gluttony that topped them all, with its reenactment of battles, its old-fashioned sailing ships, and its outpouring of sappy patriotic products printed with the magic numerals 76.

— Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026

Definition of gluttony

Noun

Decades of fiscal profligacy, including the costs of an extended conflict with Japan in Korea, had drained the imperial treasury.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
His first-half profligacy, at odds with his attacking threat, exemplified that notion.

— Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of profligacy

Noun

In a March 2016 ABC News interview, Goodman noted similarities between his overeating and alcoholism.

— Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2026
For patients with emotional hunger, GLP-1 drugs do not address the root cause of the anxiety and depression driving that person’s overeating.

— Nadine Wehida, Scientific American, 25 June 2026

Definition of overeating

Noun

Both machines run on the same 12-core M6 chip, but have quite different thermal dissipation and airflow due to their radically different designs.

— Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026
Dusty coils can interfere with heat dissipation and may reduce refrigerator efficiency.

— Brigitt Earley, Martha Stewart, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of dissipation

Noun

In 2021, Johnson was paid in excess of $7,500 in connection with her work for the companies, including the one that had received the payment from the reselling company, according to court documents.

— Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
But Halloween excess, with its pillowcases full of candy, elaborate costumes for everyone from babies to adults to dogs (and a few unlucky cats), could not be more American.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of excess

Noun

But even the self-indulgence on display could not ruin the privilege of watching football in a stadium that magnificent.

— Phil Hay, New York Times, 4 July 2026
Simón, who undertook a similar odyssey at the same age, never allows this delicate story to succumb to self-indulgence or an inflated sense of its own importance.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026

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