satisfaction

noun

1 he smiled with satisfaction:

contentment, contentedness, content, pleasure, gratification, fulfillment, happiness, sense of well-being, pride, sense of achievement, delight, joy, enjoyment, relish, triumph;

self-satisfaction, smugness, complacency;

archaic self-content.

▷antonyms dissatisfaction, displeasure, discontent.

2 the satisfaction of consumer needs and wants:

fulfillment, gratification;

appeasement, assuagement.

3 investors may have to turn to the courts for satisfaction:

compensation, recompense, reparation, restitution, repayment, payment, settlement, reimbursement, indemnification, indemnity, damages;

redress, amends, atonement;

justice;

requital, retribution;

Latin quid pro quo.

▷antonyms loss.