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Acceptance vs Satisfaction - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between acceptance and satisfaction

is that acceptance is the act of accepting; a receiving of something offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; especially, favorable reception; approval while satisfaction is a fulfillment of a need or desire.

acceptance

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete) (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of accepting; a receiving of something offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; especially, favorable reception; approval
    • the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.
  • * Isaiah 60:7 :
    • They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar.
  • Belief in something; agreement; assent.
  • State of being accepted.
  • * Shakespeare: Rape of Lucrece :
    • Makes it assured of acceptance .
  • (business, finance) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.
  • (business, finance) The bill of exchange itself when accepted.
  • An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.
  • (legal) An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law.
  • (US, government) The act of an authorized representative of the Government by which the Government assents to ownership by it of existing and identified supplies, or approves specific services rendered, as partial or complete performance of a contract.
  • The usual or accepted meaning of a word or expression.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, pluralonly) A list of horses accepted as starters in a race.

    • Usage notes

    * In modern law, proposal and acceptance are the constituent elements into which all contracts are resolved.

    Derived terms

    * (sense) acceptance of a bill of exchange, acceptance of goods * acceptance of persons * banker's acceptance, trade acceptance

    Synonyms

    * (act of accepting) accepting, receiving, reception, approval * (State of being accepted) acceptableness * (sense) assent

    References

    * * Mozley and Whitely, Law Dictionary : *: What acts shall amount to such an acceptance is often a question of great nicety and difficulty.

    satisfaction

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fulfillment of a need or desire.
  • :
  • The pleasure obtained by such fulfillment.
  • *(Henry David Thoreau) (1817-1862)
  • *:This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction .
  • *
  • *: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.
  • The source of such gratification.
  • A reparation for an injury or loss.
  • A vindication for a wrong suffered.