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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Sat·is·fac·to·ry a.
 1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation.
 2. Making amends, indemnification, or recompense; causing to cease from claims and to rest content; compensating; atoning; as, to make satisfactory compensation, or a satisfactory apology.
    A most wise and sufficient means of redemption and salvation, by the satisfactory and meritorious death and obedience of the incarnate Son of God, Jesus Christ.   --Bp. Sanderson.
 -- Sat*is*fac*to*ri*ly adv. -- Sat*is*fac*to*ri*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 satisfactoriness
      n : the quality of giving satisfaction sufficient to meet a
          demand or requirement [ant: unsatisfactoriness]