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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (5)

1. the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation;
- Example: "the chef tasted the sauce with great satisfaction"

2. state of being gratified or satisfied;
- Example: "dull repetitious work gives no gratification"
- Example: "to my immense gratification he arrived on time"
[syn: gratification, satisfaction]

3. compensation for a wrong;
- Example: "we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store"
[syn: atonement, expiation, satisfaction]

4. (law) the payment of a debt or fulfillment of an obligation;
- Example: "the full and final satisfaction of the claim"

5. act of fulfilling a desire or need or appetite;
- Example: "the satisfaction of their demand for better services"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Satisfaction \Sat`is*fac"tion\, n. [OE. satisfaccioun, F.
   satisfaction, fr. L. satisfactio, fr. satisfacere to satisfy.
   See Satisfy.]
   1. 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.
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            The mind having a power to suspend the execution and
            satisfaction of any of its desires.   --Locke.
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   2. Settlement of a claim, due, or demand; payment;
      indemnification; adequate compensation.
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            We shall make full satisfaction.      --Shak.
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   3. That which satisfies or gratifies; atonement.
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            Die he, or justice must; unless for him
            Some other, able, and as willing, pay
            The rigid satisfaction, death for death. --Milton.
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   Syn: Contentment; content; gratification; pleasure;
        recompense; compensation; amends; remuneration;
        indemnification; atonement.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

212 Moby Thesaurus words for "satisfaction":
   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