Gratification

Noun

 * 1) The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart.
 * 2) That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment; fruition: delight.
 * 3) A reward; a recompense; a gratuity.

Thesaurus
amusement, animal pleasure, bodily pleasure, boodle, bribe, bribe money, carnal delight, coddling, comfort, compensation, content, contentment, cosseting, coziness, creature comforts, delight, ease, endpleasure, enjoyment, entertainment, euphoria, favoring, forepleasure, fruition, fun, gratuity, great satisfaction, gusto, hearty enjoyment, humoring, hush money, indulgence, intellectual pleasure, joie de vivre, keen pleasure, kicks, luxury, mollycoddling, obliging, overindulgence, overpermissiveness, pampering, payoff, payola, permissiveness, physical pleasure, pleasing, pleasure, protection, quiet pleasure, recompense, relish, requital, return, reward, satisfaction, self-gratification, self-indulgence, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure, sexual pleasure, sop, spoiling, sweetness of life, titillation, voluptuousness, well-being, zest

Etymology
From gratification: <  gratificare: < gratus: + facere:.

Related terms

 * gratify