Satisfaction
[sætɪs'fækʃ(ə)n] or [,sætɪs'fækʃən]
Definition
(noun.) act of fulfilling a desire or need or appetite; 'the satisfaction of their demand for better services'.
(noun.) the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation; 'the chef tasted the sauce with great satisfaction'.
(noun.) (law) the payment of a debt or fulfillment of an obligation; 'the full and final satisfaction of the claim'.
Edited by Elsie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of satisfying, or the state of being satisfied; gratification of desire; contentment in possession and enjoyment; repose of mind resulting from compliance with its desires or demands.
(n.) Settlement of a claim, due, or demand; payment; indemnification; adequate compensation.
(n.) That which satisfies or gratifies; atonement.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Gratification.[2]. Contentment, content, enjoyment, ease, comfort.[3]. Compensation, amends, requital, remuneration, indemnification, reparation, atonement, recompense.[4]. Discharge, payment.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Contentment, content, complacency, pleasure, recompense, compensation, amends,remuneration, indemnification, atonement
ANT:Discontent, grievance, dissatisfaction, pain, vexation, annoyance, injury,wrong, fraud, robbery, obligation, demand, claim, damnification, transgression,offence
Typist: Xavier
Examples
- His satisfaction was not removed by Rebecca's own statements, behaviour, and conversation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He was again put on night duty, much to his satisfaction. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The promised departure was all that Fanny could think of with much satisfaction. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- This simple Experiment at once proved the effect of the Bomb Submarine to the satisfaction of all the Spectators. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- My Dear: I write a little word to tell you with how much satisfaction I watch your efforts to control your temper. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- If our great view is upon those of the next, the expectation of them is an infinitely higher satisfaction than the enjoyment of those of the present. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Here at least were intelligible facts regarding landscape--far-reaching proofs productive of genuine satisfaction. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- If it was cheap ugliness, I'd say nothing, but it costs as much as the other, and I don't get any satisfaction out of it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I'd rather you wouldn't, said Meg, taking a naughty satisfaction in trying her lover's patience and her own power. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- His father had never conferred a favour or shewn a kindness more to his satisfaction. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- And I hope that he may find it--Mr. Bucket again looks grave--to his satisfaction. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- When all this was done to the magistrate's satisfaction, the magistrate and Mr. Jinks consulted in whispers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He didn't know what satisfaction _he_ could give any gentleman, respecting that family. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It would have been a troublesome job and no satisfaction. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- This remark he offers like a most respectable tradesman anxious to execute an order neatly and to the perfect satisfaction of his customer. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And food and wisdom are the corresponding satisfactions of either? Plato. The Republic.
- The task of politics is to understand those deeper demands and to find civilized satisfactions for them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Hitherto I have known few pleasures save of the severer kind: my satisfactions have been those of the solitary student. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He must give a tug still--all the stronger because other satisfactions were going. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And the morning wore away in satisfactions very sweet, if not very sound. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Both see that there are good and bad satisfactions of the same impulse. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But it is a great mistake to regard these values as ultimate ends to which the concrete satisfactions of experience are subordinate. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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