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Self-gratification

Definitions: Self-gratification

Self-gratification

Noun

1. Indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures.

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "self-gratification" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references)

Synonyms: Self-gratification

Synonyms: dissoluteness (n), incontinence (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Self-gratification

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Sexuality

Masturbation, self-gratification, autoeroticism, onanism, self-abuse.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Self-gratification

Specialty definitions using "self-gratification": Self Psychology. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Self-gratification

DomainTitle

Books

  • Faith in a Culture of Self-Gratification (1999) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Self-gratification

"Self-gratification" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Self-gratification" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Self-gratification

Language Translations for "self-gratification"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

自已称心. (various references)

   

German

  

selbstbefriedigung (masturbation). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elf-gratificationsay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Self-gratification

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-f-f-g-i-i-i-l-n-o-r-s-t-t"

-3 letters: gratifications.

-4 letters: facilitations, falsification, felicitations, gratification, ratifications, rationalistic, rationalities, regionalistic.

-5 letters: affectations, affiliations, altercations, elicitations, facilitating, facilitation, facilitators, felicitating, felicitation, felicitators, fictionalise, fractionates, frontalities, gasification, intercoastal, organicities, ratification, ratiocinates, reifications, retaliations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Self-gratification


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 6C 66 2D 67 72 61 74 69 66 69 63 61 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00101101 01100111 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01100110 01101001 01100011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#108 &#102 &#45 &#103 &#114 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#102 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006C 0066 002D 0067 0072 0061 0074 0069 0066 0069 0063 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

537178721573846786757275696786758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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