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Noun: orgy  or-jee
  1. A wild gathering involving excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures, often sexual in nature
    "The party devolved into an orgy with loud music and uninhibited behaviour"
     
  2. Any act of immoderate indulgence
    "an orgy of shopping";
    - binge [informal], splurge [informal]
     
  3. Secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual activity
    "Descriptions of ancient orgies often shock modern sensibilities"; "The Bacchanalian orgy was a wild celebration in honour of Dionysus"

Derived forms: orgies

Type of: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, drunken revelry, indulgence, religious rite, riot [archaic], rite, saturnalia

Encyclopedia: Orgy