gratification

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

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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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