MONASTICISMS Antonyms

• the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle

• an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good

• an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires

• a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone

• the act of indulging or gratifying a desire

• foolish or senseless behavior

• the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution

• something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity

• the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive

• wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living

• a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters

• (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality

• wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living

• a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations

• an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires

• excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence

• the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment

• concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs