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self-gratification

noun

Etymology

From self- + gratification.

  1. derived from grātificō
  2. borrowed from gratification
  3. borrowed from grātificātiō
  4. formed as self-gratification — “self- + gratification”

Definitions

  1. Self-satisfaction.

    • It turns out that overworking your brain with either physical or mental exercise may lower your ability to delay self-gratification.

  2. Masturbation.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for self-gratification. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA