Gratification

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gratification \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.


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     2. That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment;
        fruition: delight.
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     3. A reward; a recompense; a gratuity. --Bp. Morton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gratification
       n 1: state of being gratified; great satisfaction; "dull
            repetitious work gives no gratification"; "to my immense
            gratification he arrived on time" [syn: {satisfaction}]
       2: the act or an instance of satisfying

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "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