Indulgent means richly pleasurable, and probably not good for you. A very large slice of chocolate cake.
Food advertising has adopted the word almost completely, so an indulgent dessert is one that has given up on being sensible. The older sense is about people, since an indulgent parent is one who gives a child too much of its own way, and that use is a gentle criticism. There is a third and warmer use, since an indulgent smile is a tolerant one. The verb is indulge, and the noun indulgence covers all three.
Latin
indulgēns
English, today
indulgent
From Latin indulgēns, present participle of indulgēre.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Man Called Ove, Smell & Taste
First appears in chapter 25 of A Man Called Ove.
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