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Gratification

Gratification Meaning & Definition
Gratification Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Gratification?

[n] the act or an instance of satisfying
[n] state of being gratified; great satisfaction; "dull repetitious work gives no gratification"; "to my immense gratification he arrived on time"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Gratification: satisfaction

Related Terms | Find terms related to Gratification: amusement | animal pleasure | bodily pleasure | boodle | bribe | bribe money | carnal delight | coddling | comfort | compensation | content | contentment | cosseting | coziness | creature comforts | delight | ease | endpleasure | enjoyment | entertainment | euphoria | favoring | forepleasure | fruition | fun | gratuity | great satisfaction | gusto | hearty enjoyment | humoring | hush money | indulgence | intellectual pleasure | joie de vivre | keen pleasure | kicks | luxury | mollycoddling | obliging | overindulgence | overpermissiveness | pampering | payoff | payola | permissiveness | physical pleasure | pleasing | pleasure | protection | quiet pleasure | recompense | relish | requital | return | reward | satisfaction | self-gratification | self-indulgence | sensual pleasure | sensuous pleasure | sexual pleasure | sop | spoiling | sweetness of life | titillation | voluptuousness | well-being | zest

See Also | emotional state | humoring | indulgence | indulging | pampering | pleasing | quality of life | satiation | satisfaction | self-gratification | spirit

Gratification In Webster's Dictionary

\Grat"i*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. gratificatio: cf. F. gratification.] 1. The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart. 2. That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment; fruition: delight. 3. A reward; a recompense; a gratuity. --Bp. Morton.

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