Definition of "gratification" []

• The act of gratifying. (noun)
• The condition of being gratified. (noun)
• An instance or a cause of being gratified. (noun)
• Archaic A reward. (noun)
• Archaic A gratuity. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "We may opt to find comfort in solace, the bottle, antidepressants, pain killers, dating or anything that can give us short term gratification and distract us from feeling our emotions."
• "I want to encourage what I call gratification education (what others have called "natural learning" or "unschooling")."
• "For young players, especially, short-term gratification is the norm."