gratification

gratify | American Dictionary

gratify
verb[ T ]
us/ˈɡræt̬·əˌfɑɪ/
to please someone, or to satisfy a wish or need:
[ + to infinitive ]He was gratified to see how well his students had done.

gratifying

adjectiveus/ˈɡræt̬·əˌfɑɪ·ɪŋ/
It was a big game for us, and a very gratifying win.

Examples of gratify

gratify
His conclusion is that the results should be gratifying for the music educator, indicating music's importance in young people's lives.
Especially gratifying is that the strong-party-strong-executive and weak-party-weak-executive cells are empty.
They depict a process in which desire is produced and gratified through the dissolution of the morally integrated self.
According to this model, desire should be fanned to a feverish pitch; however, it must never be gratified, not in this world.
What we actually are concerned with are human responses, organic and social necessities, which can be gratified on or through this site.
It is also gratifying to see drug counselling given equal space to some of the more prominently reported therapies.
Africanists will no doubt be gratified to find that the continent receives so much attention, but there are significant omissions.
Two elements in resilience research are particularly gratifying.
Given this satisfactory result linguistically, it was gratifying to see a significant gain in efficiency for the revised grammar running on page.
This paper is gratifying because it explains that, indeed, there is a coherent theory underlying these isolated islands.
A remarkable description of the woman's body follows: remarkable because it candidly attempts to gratify the reader's scopophilic desire.
We were gratified by the enthusiastic response of those invited to join our board.
But focus on a single part or even on a single chapter facilitates reading and, given the profusion of ideas, is gratifying.
Judging this injunction to be achievable, many scientists were gratified; they believed they would not be asked again for unlimited political commitment.
Both parties could be gratified by the same narrative, while the restingplaces of power in the real world in fact remained unchanged.
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