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Satisfaction vs Satisfying - What's the difference?

satisfaction | satisfying |

As a noun satisfaction

is a fulfillment of a need or desire.

As an adjective satisfying is

that satisfies]], [[gratify|gratifies, pleases or comforts.

As a verb satisfying is

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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.

    • satisfying

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That satisfies]], [[gratify, gratifies, pleases or comforts.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Robert M. Pringle , title=How to Be Manipulative , volume=100, issue=1, page=31 , magazine= citation , passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}

    Antonyms

    * dissatisfying * unsatisfying

    Verb

    (head)