Satisfaction vs Retaliation - What's the difference?
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A fulfillment of a need or desire.
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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.
Violent response to an act of harm or perceived injustice.
An act of violent response.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 13, author=, title=`Never again,' says survivor, work=Toronto Star
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Satisfaction is a related term of retaliation.
As nouns the difference between satisfaction and retaliation
is that satisfaction is a fulfillment of a need or desire while retaliation is violent response to an act of harm or perceived injustice.satisfaction
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