satisfaction
/sætɪsˈfækʃən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The pleasure obtained by the fulfillment of one or more needs or desires; a sense of contentment with one's situation and achievements.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The witch, repository of hieratic lore and folk legends and occult arcana, became the distributor of philtres and unguents, electuaries and pastilles, herbs and charms and incantations - directed toward sexual pleasures and amatory satisfactions."
- "November 4, 1860, Henry David Thoreau, letter to Mr. D. R. This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction."
- "Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff."
- "This early rigidification and satisfaction with his own conclusions made him insensitive to new political and philosophical ideas."
- "The count demanded satisfaction in the form of a duel at dawn."
- "He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't."
Etymology
From Middle English satisfaccioun, from Old French satisfaccion and Latin satisfactiō, satisfactiōnis.
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job satisfaction
satisfaction note
satisfaction piece
satisfaction theory of atonement
self-satisfaction