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gratification

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grat=i=fi=ca=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

gratificationn. [L. gratificatio: cf. F. gratification.].
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
  •  That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment; fruition: delight.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A reward; a recompense; a gratuity.  Bp. Morton.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

gratification

Pleasure

N pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition, oblectation, delectation, delection, relish, zest, gusto, satisfaction, complacency, well-being, good, snugness, comfort, ease, cushion, sans souci, without worry, mind at ease, joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine, cheerfulness, treat, refreshment, amusement, luxury, mens sana in corpore sano, a sound mind in a sound body, happiness, felicity, bliss, beatitude, beautification, enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy, summum bonum, paradise, elysium, third heaven, seventh heaven, cloud nine, unalloyed happiness, hedonics, hedonism, honeymoon, palmy days, halcyon days, golden age, golden time, Dixie, Dixie's land, Saturnia regna, Arcadia, Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone, pleased, not sorry, glad, gladsome, pleased as Punch, happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified, happy as a clam at high water, happy as a clam, happy as a king, happy as the day is long, thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus, enjoying, joyful, hedonic, in a blissful state, in paradise, in raptures, in ecstasies, in a transport of delight, comfortable, at ease, content, sans souci, overjoyed, entranced, enchanted, enraptures, enravished, transported, fascinated, captivated, with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes, pleasing, ecstatic, beatic, painless, unalloyed, without alloy, cloudless, happily, with pleasure, with glee, one's heart leaping with joy, a wilderness of sweets, I wish you all the joy that you can wish, jour de ma vie, joy ruled the day and love the night, joys season'd high and tasting strong of guilt, oh happiness, our being's end and aim!, there is a pleasure that is born of pain, throned on highest bliss, vedi Napoli e poi muori, zwischen Freud und Leid ist die Brucke nicht weit, the bridge between joy and sorrow is not wide.


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