A gap being filled exactly — enough, and nothing more needed. The Latin behind the word is satis, enough.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives satisfying as satisfy plus -ing, and traces satisfy back through Middle English and Old French to Latin satisfacere. Latin satis means enough, so the old picture is close to doing enough.
Wiktionary 記的是 satisfy 加 -ing，而 satisfy 經由中古英文、古法文追到拉丁文 satisfacere。拉丁文的 satis 是「足夠」，所以這個字最早的畫面接近「做到夠」。這也解釋了為什麼它的各種用法都繞著「剛剛好、不必再要了」轉。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract) entry 'satisfying', etymology tree Latin satisfacere > Old French satisfier > Middle English satisfyen > satisfy + -ing, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1022011038:14804, supplied in the evidence packet
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
satisfyingadj/ˈsætɪsfaɪ.ɪŋ/
- 1
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; […]
- As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
- 2
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.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。