• IPA: /sætɪsˈfækʃən/

satisfaction

1. A fulfillment of a need or desire.

   He enjoyed the dish with great satisfaction. He'll order it again the next time he arrives.

2. The pleasure obtained by such fulfillment.

   • This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:

     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.

3. The source of such gratification.
4. A reparation for an injury or loss.
5. A vindication for a wrong suffered.

   The count demanded satisfaction in the form of a duel at dawn.

   • c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene iv], page 269 ↗:

     He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brawl#English|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.

• French: satisfaction
• German: Befriedigung
• Italian: soddisfazione
• Portuguese: satisfação
• Russian: удовлетворе́ние
• Spanish: satisfacción

• German: Zufriedenheit
• Italian: soddisfazione
• Portuguese: satisfação
• Russian: удовлетворённость

• Portuguese: satisfação

• German: Satisfaktion, Genugtuung
• Portuguese: satisfação, retribuição

• Portuguese: satisfação, retribuição