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gratification

UK/ˌɡɹætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/US/ˌɡɹætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,001 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: gratifications

Gratification is the satisfying of a desire. Instant gratification.

Delayed gratification is the phrase everybody knows, from experiments about children and sweets. Gratification that arrives instantly is what almost every modern product is designed to sell.

Christopher Johnson from Tokyo, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0

Definitions of gratification

  1. 1noungratificationThe satisfying of a desire.C1

    “The whole design was built around instant gratification.”

gratification is a satisfying.

Where it comes from

Latin gratificatio comes from gratificari, to do a favour, from gratus, pleasing, plus facere, to make.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *gʷerH-

  2. Middle French

    gratification

  3. Latin

    grātificātiō

  4. English, today

    gratification

Built from

  • grātus · Latin — kind, pleasing
  • faciō · Latin — to make

From Latin grātificātiō either directly or through Middle French gratification, from Latin grātificō (“to do a favor to, oblige, please, gratify”), from grātus (“kind, pleasing”) + faciō (“to make”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

gratification in the wild

  • Erotic spanking is the act of spanking another person for the sexual arousal or gratification of either or both parties.

    Erotic spanking

  • Urethral sounding is the practice of inserting objects (typically made from metal or silicone) into the urethra for sexual gratification.

    Urethral sounding

  • Delayed gratification, or deferred gratification, is the ability to resist the temptation of an immediate reward in favor of a more valuable and long-lasting reward later.

    Delayed gratification

  • A person's ability to delay gratification relates to other similar skills such as patience, impulse control, self-control and willpower, all of which are involved in self-regulation.

    Delayed gratification

  • The Stanford marshmallow experiment was a study on delayed gratification conducted in 1970 by psychologist Walter Mischel at Stanford University.

    Stanford marshmallow experiment

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the faciō family

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