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Epicurism vs Gratification - What's the difference?

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Epicurism is a related term of gratification.


As nouns the difference between epicurism and gratification

is that epicurism is epicureanism while gratification is 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.

epicurism

English

Noun

  • Epicureanism
  • *1843 , '', book 4, chapter IV, ''Captains of Industry
  • Deep-hidden under wretchedest god-forgetting Cants, Epicurisms , ; forgotten as under foulest fat Lethe mud and weeds, there is yet, in all hearts born into this God’s-World, a spark of the Godlike slumbering.

    gratification

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment; fruition: delight.
  • A reward; a recompense; a gratuity.
  • Synonyms

    * gladness, queemliness

    Derived terms

    * oral gratification * self-gratification