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Definition of Self-gratification

1. Noun. Indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures.

2. Noun. The act of satisfying your own desires and giving yourself pleasure.

Definition of Self-gratification

1. Noun. self-satisfaction ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-gratification

self-fertilisation self-fertilised self-fertilization self-fertilized self-flagellation self-flattery self-forgetful self-fulfilling self-fulfilling prophecies self-fulfilling prophecy

self-fulfillment self-generated self-giving self-governing self-government self-gratification (current term) self-harm self-harmer self-hating self-hatred

self-help self-help devices self-help groups self-hypnosis self-image self-images self-immolate self-immolation self-immolations

Literary usage of Self-gratification

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Profession of Teaching by Oscar Isreal Woodley, Myra Virginia Woodley (1917)
"Happiness sought through self-gratification. People are seeking happiness by many and varied means, according to their varied conceptions of its nature, ..."

2. The Profession of Teaching by Oscar Isreal Woodley, Myra Virginia Woodley (1917)
"Happiness sought through self-gratification. People seeking happiness by many and varied means, according to their varied conceptions of its nature, ..."

3. On the Study of Words by Richard Chenevix Trench (1904)
"... the just punishment of the sinner by his God, of the criminal by the judge, the other an act in which the self-gratification of one who counts lary of ..."

4. On the Study of Words: Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the by Richard Chenevix Trench (1855)
"... the other an act in which the self-gratification of one who counts himself injured or offended is sought, could in like manner be fully established, ..."

5. Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle (1859)
"It is self-gratification under a hideous form ; self-pleasing in a way of self- torture ; the worship ... self-gratification is hie object and his purpose. ..."

6. The Elements of Political Economy by Francis Wayland (1837)
"... various modes of gratification ; and, secondly with reference to these circumstances. I. Of consumption for the purpose of self gratification simply. ..."

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