SATISFACTORINESS Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

satisfactoriness

noun

Definition of satisfactoriness

as in acceptability

the quality or state of meeting one's needs adequately the overall satisfactoriness of the service led us to leave a reasonable tip

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Noun

Today, everyone from the Economist to the New York Times has heralded the coming psychedelics renaissance, as hallucinogens begin to gain greater cultural, medical and commercial acceptability.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 July 2026
The rate has been gradually dropping for decades, due to cigarette taxes, tobacco product price hikes, smoking bans, public education campaigns and changes in the social acceptability of lighting up in public.

— Mike Stobbe, Fortune, 29 May 2026

Definition of acceptability

Noun

Revising the number mid-review without support hurt bunq twice, once on adequacy and once on credibility.

— AJ Dhaliwal, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
For the three trackers, one is for regional transmission organization adjustment, another is for fuel adjustment and the last is resource adequacy adjustment.

— Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of adequacy

Noun

Rex Frazier, a former deputy commissioner at the California Department of Insurance, said that in the situation that the insurers find themselves, the state regulator will be looking at a company’s capital sufficiency.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026
Since then, the case has remained in the pleading stage, where the county has challenged the sufficiency of the claims without answering them, and the child’s attorneys have revised their complaint three times.

— Bay City News, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2026

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