Satisfying means leaving you content and wanting nothing more. A satisfying meal, deeply satisfying, satisfying to watch.
It is about the completeness of the feeling rather than its intensity — a satisfying meal need not be a remarkable one. It applies to work finished, problems solved and things that click into place. Oddly satisfying is now a whole genre of video, where the pleasure comes from watching something fit or align exactly. Note satisfy, satisfaction.
1adjectivesatisfyingLeaving you content and wanting nothing more.
“There's nothing more satisfying than finishing a difficult puzzle.”
satisfying is a quality of contentment.
Proto-Indo-European
*seh₂-
Old French
satisfier
Middle English
satisfyen
English
satisfy
English, today
satisfying
Built from
From satisfy + -ing. satisfy comes from Middle English satisfyen, from Old French satisfier. From Middle English satisfyen, satisfien, from Old French satisfiier, satisfier (also Old French satisfaire), from Latin satisfaciō, from satis (“enough, sufficient”) + faciō (“to make; to do”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA