satisfaction

UK/sætɪsˈfækʃən/US/sætɪsˈfækʃən/

nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #3,090 of 15,258neutral

Satisfaction is the quiet good feeling of having got what you wanted. Not delight — contentment, with the job done.

It takes in or with, and it appears constantly in business language, since customer satisfaction is measured and job satisfaction is what people say they want more than money. There is a formal legal sense about debts being satisfied. And there is a duelling sense in demanding satisfaction, which meant a challenge. The verb satisfy also means to meet a requirement rather than to please.

Definitions of satisfaction

1nounsatisfactionContentment at having achieved or received what you wanted.B2
“There is real satisfaction in finishing a job properly.”

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*seh₂-
Latin
satisfactio
Old French
satisfaccion
Middle English
satisfaccioun
English, today
satisfaction

From Middle English satisfaccioun, from Old French satisfaccion and Latin satisfactio.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 3 of A Man Called Ove.

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satisfaction in the wild

Accord and satisfaction is a contract law concept about the purchase of the release from a debt obligation.
Accord and satisfaction
The accord is the agreement to discharge the obligation and the satisfaction is the legal "consideration" which binds the parties to the agreement.
Accord and satisfaction
Customer satisfaction is a term frequently used in marketing to evaluate customer experience.
Customer satisfaction
People tend to gain life satisfaction as they get older.
Life satisfaction

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the satisfactio family

satisfaction

satisfaction — used about once every 482 pages · #3,090 · point at the bar for the others

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satisfaction

UK/sætɪsˈfækʃən/US/sætɪsˈfækʃən/

nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #3,090 of 15,258neutral

Satisfaction is the quiet good feeling of having got what you wanted. Not delight — contentment, with the job done.

Definitions of satisfaction

1nounsatisfactionContentment at having achieved or received what you wanted.B2
“There is real satisfaction in finishing a job properly.”

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*seh₂-
Latin
satisfactio
Old French
satisfaccion
Middle English
satisfaccioun
English, today
satisfaction

From Middle English satisfaccioun, from Old French satisfaccion and Latin satisfactio.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 3 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word

satisfaction in the wild

Accord and satisfaction is a contract law concept about the purchase of the release from a debt obligation.
Accord and satisfaction
The accord is the agreement to discharge the obligation and the satisfaction is the legal "consideration" which binds the parties to the agreement.
Accord and satisfaction
Customer satisfaction is a term frequently used in marketing to evaluate customer experience.
Customer satisfaction
People tend to gain life satisfaction as they get older.
Life satisfaction

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the satisfactio family

satisfaction

satisfaction — used about once every 482 pages · #3,090 · point at the bar for the others