pampering

1. 1.

   gratifying tastes, appetites, or desires

   “pampering parents often have spoilt children”

   “a very pampering cruise experience”

   Similarindulgent

Other forms of pampering

plural

pamperings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pampering

What does pampering mean?

pampering means "the act of indulging or gratifying a desire". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pampering?

pampering has 3 syllables: pam-pe-ring. The stress falls on "pam". In IPA it is /ˈpæmpɚɪŋ/.

What is another word for pampering?

Close synonyms include indulgence, indulging, humoring. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pampering a common word?

pampering is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.