satisfying en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˈsætɪsfaɪ.ɪŋ/
Etymology
Etymology tree ▲ Latin satisfacerepcalq. Old French satisfierder. Middle English satisfyen English satisfy English -ing English satisfying From satisfy + -ing.
Meanings
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That satisfies, gratifies or pleases; that removes any feeling of lack.
[T]he Standing Evidences of the Truth of the Goſpel, tho' in themſelves moſt firm, ſolid, and ſatisfying, yet make but faint Impreſſions on the Minds of many Chriſtians; […]
1705 November 7 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Francis Atterbury, “A Standing Revelation, the Best Means of Conviction. A Sermon Preach’d before Her Majesty, at St. James’s Chapel, on Sunday, October 28. 1705, being the Festival of St. Simon and St. Jude.”, in Fourteen Sermons Preach’d on Several Occasions. […], London: […] E. P. [Edmund Parker?] for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1708, →OCLC, page 328:As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
2012 January 14, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2013, page 31:
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Pleasing to certain sensory channels in neurocognition, especially auditory and tactile ones synesthetically via ASMR.
If my girls like something I cooked for them, they don’t exclaim that it is "satisfying." Rather, the kids seem to be using the word this way to refer not to all kinds of sensory experience, but to a subset of them, more often involving sound and touch than sight, smell or taste. And this is not random. […] Quite unconsciously, American kids are transforming the word "satisfying" into a way of being more Jahai-like, more specific, about sensation. Their "Definition 2" usage is giving overt expression to what the pleasures of hearing the gurgling of a bathtub draining and the feeling of popping Bubble Wrap have in common. You may have to work to wrap your head around the likeness between those two sensations, but it makes sense that a language, in this case, English, would develop a way of corralling auditory and tactile satisfaction off from the visual, olfactory and gustatory.
2022 July 30, John McWhorter, “Language Evolves Right Before Our Ears. It's Very 'Satisfying'”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2022:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more satisfying | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most satisfying | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Coordinates
Deriveds
nonsatisfying · satisfyingness · satisfyingly
Relateds
Synonyms
Translations (25)
hu megnyugtató (that satisfies) · cmn 令人滿意的 /令人满意的 (that satisfies) · nl bevredigend (that satisfies) · sv tillfredsställande (that satisfies) · fa رضایتبخش (that satisfies) · hu jóleső (that satisfies) · fa قناعتبخش (that satisfies) · de befriedigend (that satisfies) · tg ризоятбахш (that satisfies) · la satiāns (that satisfies) · es satisfacedor (that satisfies) · it soddisfacente (that satisfies) · de zufriedenstellend (that satisfies) · tg хурсандиовар (that satisfies) · sa पूर (that satisfies) · pt satisfatório (that satisfies) · fa خرسندیآور (that satisfies) · eo kontentiga (that satisfies) · mi nanea (that satisfies) · es satisfaciente (that satisfies) · fi tyydyttävä (that satisfies) · cmn 令人高興的 /令人高兴的 (that satisfies) · ru удовлетвори́тельный (that satisfies) · tg қаноатбахш (that satisfies) · hu kielégítő (that satisfies)