Dictionaries › English

satisfice

Pronunciation: /ˈsætɪsfaɪs/

The English word “satisfice” has 2 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To satisfy.
  2. Of human behavior: to make a choice that suffices to fulfill the minimum requirements to achieve an objective, without special regard for utility maximization or optimization of one's preferences.

Etymology

1560, Northern alteration of satisfy, probably influenced in form by Latin satisfacere.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “satisfice” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.