(n.) The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate.
(n.) That which gives pleasure or keen satisfaction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the past decade, the quinolone antimicrobial class has enjoyed a renaissance with the emergence of the fluoroquinolone subclass.
(2) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(3) Of course it is important to ensure shareholders enjoy the benefits of investing in the company, they are the owners.
(4) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
(5) #kflead May 21, 2014 The King's Fund IKS (@kingsfund_lib) Hope you enjoyed @GregSearle2012 's #kflead workshop!
(6) The nurses who enjoyed the field most were of the androgynous or masculine type and had high levels of self-esteem.
(7) For now however, what’s left of their fan base are enjoying a rare burst of sunshine.
(8) Until the bell, 19-year-old Lizzie Armitstead figured strongly in a leading group of 12 that at one point enjoyed a two-minute lead, racing comfortably alongside the Olympic time-trial champion Kristin Armstrong.
(9) They anticipated the following scenario: a struggling club fires its manager and enjoys an immediate upsurge.
(10) Those are our picks, but what have you been enjoying on Android this week?
(11) With this technique, both FP and UC patients enjoyed excellent or good function in 90% of the cases.
(12) I suppose he’ll have to go to QPR.” Lampard released a statement confirming his departure from Chelsea that read: “When I arrived at this fantastic club 13 years ago I would never have believed that I would be fortunate enough to play so many games and enjoy sharing in so much success.
(13) Delabole residents Susan and John Theobald said: “We’ve always enjoyed being around the turbines and have often walked right up to them with our dogs.
(14) As well as enjoying access to a number of RAF bases, the agency has been flying in and out of civilian airports across the country.
(15) The survey also found that department stores – which include general retailers such as Marks & Spencer as well as traditional outlets such as John Lewis – had enjoyed their strongest surge in sales for 30 years.
(16) In an official response to the EU Brexit negotiating team, British in Europe and the3million have said that if May’s proposal is adopted it would represent a “severe reduction of the current rights” enjoyed by Britons in Europe.
(17) We’ve got to enjoy this because we might never get the opportunity to do this again.
(18) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(19) The latest filed accounts show Coates and her family have started to enjoy the fruits of their labour, sharing almost £75m in dividends over three years.
(20) Saudi Arabia As one might imagine, Saudi television rather wants for the bounty we enjoy here - reality shows in which footballers' mistresses administer handjobs to barnyard animals, and all those other things which make living in the godless west such a pleasure.
Gratification
Definition:
(n.) 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.
(n.) That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment; fruition: delight.
(n.) A reward; a recompense; a gratuity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aesthetic surgery crosses the dividing line between surgery for reconstruction and alteration of deviations (which do not in themselves constitute objective deformities) and is sometimes even performed without medical indication, but just for the gratification of individual vanity.
(2) This shift is thought to parallel the oscillation between unconscious instinctual gratification and conscious attempts at reparation which is the main dynamic feature of the compulsive neurosis in waking life.
(3) Bell pointed to the virtual dissolution of the work ethic for instant gratification, and to the inability of liberalism to deal with the consequences.
(4) The significant changes seen among women who had undergone a laparoscopy after the longterm evaluation were in faking orgasm and in seeking different outlets for sexual gratification.
(5) My feeling is that much, if not all, of Savile's gratification came not from the sexual attacks themselves, but from their continuing confirmation that he was a national puppetmaster.
(6) In the era of instant gratification, it was perhaps inevitable that retailers would eventually offer same-day grocery delivery, and it’s hardly surprising that it’s Amazon that is leading the way.
(7) We have a society accustomed to the pursuit of prosperity and individual gratification, often resentful of immigrants, and possessing a perilously skin-deep attachment to democracy.
(8) The gratification comes from realizing that the results of distal sensory nerve repair exceed those obtained after repair of other nerves.
(9) This mythology, embodied over those decades in the Horatio Alger stories consumed particularly by upwardly mobile young men and in the phrase "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", consistently held out that American promise by equating hard work (along with other good Puritan values such as delayed gratification, temperance, saving and self-reliance) with economic success.
(10) Its essential shielding function has evolved from oral fantasies of gratification at the breast, and this origin places it in the context of other phenomena, including the Isakower phenomenon.
(11) People have come up to us and expressed their gratification.
(12) A factor analysis was performed on the SDMI and six levels of sexual decision making were defined: Object Constancy, Ambivalence, Need for Merger, Need Gratification, Low Self-esteem, and Narcissistic Gratification.
(13) Several dimensions of impulse control (i.e., delay of gratification, reflectivity, and motor control) were related to intelligence, mental status, and adjustment among 91 institutionalized aged women.
(14) They obtained social gratification through group activities.
(15) It's not been a surprise, but it's a matter of some gratification."
(16) It is a special collaborative effort that requires continuous monitoring and assessment in order to maximize gratification for both parties.
(17) Although many trans-sexuals derive some gratification from assuming roles appropriate to their desired gender, a substantial number are convinced that only sexual transformation can bring meaningful relief of their feelings of despair.
(18) A new pattern of health care in developing countries promises to meet the needs of rural people and still provide reasonable gratification for health workers.
(19) Controlling for age, education, and their interaction, high intimacy motivation in women was associated with greater happiness and gratification, whereas in men it was associated with lack of strain and lack of uncertainty.
(20) The results are consistent with clinical observations that ADHD children are less willing than others to accept "delayed gratification" and that methylphenidate increases the control of delayed reward over their behavior.