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instant gratification

noun as in pleasure principle

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Example Sentences

As a society, we just want our football and all the instant gratification that comes with it.

The digital world shrinks distance, allowing for instant gratification.

Advertising provides instant gratification, and it makes management, employees, and shareholders feel good about themselves.

Steve Jobs, the king of technological instant gratification, is destroying American politics.

The technology made you feel like you had your finger on your mouse, made you expect the instant gratification of a “smackdown.”

Growing to maturity is about planning rather than acting on impulses or instant gratification.

Instant gratification often has costly consequences that forethought might have averted.

The self-control and self-denial of previous pragmatic contexts are abandoned for instant gratification.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to instant gratification, such as: lustprinzip, pain-pleasure principle, and pleasure-unpleasure principle.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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