satisfactoriness

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Second in importance is its satisfactoriness for the life and scientific productiveness of the observer.

From The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes A Study of Ideational Behavior by Yerkes, Robert M.

It did not occur, accordingly, to non-technical readers to interpret the doctrine that the meaning and validity of thought are fixed by differences made in consequences and in satisfactoriness, to mean consequences in personal feelings.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

But the satisfactoriness of the evening had suddenly ceased.

From The Roll-Call by Bennett, Arnold

But it was never to be; and the want of satisfactoriness is, that after all the money never gets to him.'

From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles

He divined the full satisfactoriness of the true answer, which he demonstrated to be true by a method as nearly mathematical as the case admits of.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin