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Satisfaction vs Requital - What's the difference?

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Satisfaction is a related term of requital.


As nouns the difference between satisfaction and requital

is that satisfaction is a fulfillment of a need or desire while requital is compensation for loss or damage; amends.

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 .
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  • *: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.

    • requital

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Compensation for loss or damage; amends.
  • retaliation or reprisal; vengeance.

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