Dictionary Definition
satisfaction
Noun
1 the contentment you feel when you have done
something right; "the chef tasted the sauce with great
satisfaction" [ant: dissatisfaction]
2 state of being gratified; great satisfaction;
"dull repetitious work gives no gratification"; "to my immense
gratification he arrived on time" [syn: gratification]
3 compensation for a wrong; "we were unable to
get satisfaction from the local store" [syn: atonement, expiation]
4 act of fulfilling a desire or need or appetite;
"the satisfaction of their demand for better services"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
satisfaction- fulfillment of a need or desire.
- the pleasure obtained by such fulfillment.
- the source of such gratification.
- reparation for an injury or loss.
- vindication for a wrong suffered.
Translations
fulfillment of a need or desire
- Czech: uspokojení
- Finnish: tyydytys, helpotus
- German: Befriedigung
- Swedish: tillfredsställning
the pleasure obtained by such fulfillment
reparation for an injury or loss
- Finnish: hyvitys
vindication for a wrong suffered
- Finnish: hyvitys, helpotus
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 滿足, 满足 (mǎnzú)
- Dutch: voldoening
- Finnish: ilo
- French: satisfaction
- Hungarian: kielégités, megelégedés
- Italian: soddisfazione
- Japanese: 満足 (まんぞく, manzoku)
- Korean: 만족 (manjok)
- Norwegian: tilfredsstillelse (1,2,3), oppreisning (4,5)
- Portuguese: satisfação
- Russian: удовлетворение (udovletvorénije)
- Spanish: satisfacción
- Telugu: తృప్తి (tRpti)
Extensive Definition
Satisfaction may refer to:
- A feeling of gratification; see Contentment
- Atonement (satisfaction view), a Christian view of salvation
- "Satisfaction (Benny Benassi song)", a 2003 Electro House song
- "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", a 1965 song by the Rolling Stones
- Satisfaction (TV series), an Australian television series
- Satisfaction (album), a 1977 album by Aretha Franklin
- "Satisfaction", a 1984 song by Laura Branigan
- Satisfaction (film) (aka Girls of Summer), a 1988 film starring Justine Bateman, Liam Neeson, and Julia Roberts
- A component of usability in human-computer interaction
- Replacing variables in a sentential function with constants to produce a true sentence
- Satisfaction (Eve song) a song and video by the American rapper Eve
satisfaction in German: Satisfaction
satisfaction in Spanish: Satisfacción
satisfaction in French: Satisfaction
(homonymie)
satisfaction in Dutch: Satisfaction
satisfaction in Polish: Satisfaction
satisfaction in Russian: Сатисфакция
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
acceptance, accordance, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, adequacy, adequate supply,
adequateness,
adherence, affair of
honor, amends, amortization, amortizement, amusement, animal pleasure,
atonement, balancing, bare minimum, bare
sufficiency, bellyful,
binder, blood money,
bodily pleasure, care,
carnal delight, carrying out, cash, cash payment, clearance, comfort, commutation, compensation, competence, competency, compliance, composition, composure, compromise, conformance, conformity, consideration, content, contentedness, contentment, correction, counteraction, counterbalancing,
coziness, creature
comforts, damages, debt
service, defrayal,
defrayment, delight, deposit, disbursal, discharge, doling out, down
payment, duel, earnest, earnest money, ease, endpleasure, engorgement, enjoyment, enough, entertainment, entire
satisfaction, euphoria,
exact measure, execution, expiation, expiatory offering,
fill, fixing, forepleasure, fruition, fulfillment, fullness, fun, glut, gratification, great
satisfaction, guerdon,
gusto, happiness, hearty enjoyment,
heed, heeding, hire purchase, hire
purchase plan, honorarium, indemnification,
indemnity, installment, installment
plan, intellectual pleasure, interest payment, joie de vivre,
joy, just enough, keen
pleasure, keeping,
kicks, lex talionis,
liquidation,
luxury, making amends,
making good, making right, making up, meed, mending, minimum, monomachy, monthly payments,
more than enough, never-never, observance, observation, offsetting, overhaul, overhauling, paying, paying back, paying off,
paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind,
payoff, peace of mind,
peace offering, performance, physical
pleasure, piaculum,
pleasure, practice, prepayment, price, propitiation, quarterly
payments, quiet pleasure, quittance, reclamation, recompense, reconcilement, reconciliation, rectification, redemption, redress, refund, regular payments,
reimbursement,
relish, remedy, remittance, remuneration, repair, repairing, reparation, repayment, repletion, requital, requitement, resignation, respect, restitution, retaliation, retirement, retribution, return, revenge, reward, right amount, salvage, satiation, satiety, satisfactoriness,
satisfactory amount, saturatedness, saturation, saturation point,
self-gratification, self-indulgence, sensual pleasure, sensuous
pleasure, settlement,
sexual pleasure, single combat, sinking-fund payment, skinful, smart money, snootful, solatium, spot cash, squaring, substitution, sufficiency, sufficientness, supersaturation,
surfeit, sweetness of
life, titillation,
troubleshooting,
vindication,
voluptuousness,
weekly payments, well-being, wergild, zest