0 pleasure or satisfaction, or something which provides this:
Sales of chocolate-covered snacks are up as people seek immediate gratification.
The children who were best at delaying gratification had better academic and social skills.
Our culture is geared towards short-term gratification.
Their longings and their gratifications depend upon a level of oestrogen which is counteracted by the progestagens in all oral contraceptives.
Pensions are very complex, and gratification is delayed - especially for younger workers.
Psychologists find that behavioral differences in time preferences for non-monetary gratification arise as a part of the human development process.
He is given nutrition through a gastrostomy, but apparently this does not satisfy the enormous need for oral gratification that still persists.
He deliberately avoids deciding whether music should be construed as instant gratification or within a self-consciously virtuous tradition of structural hearing.
