FULFILMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fulfilment mean? 

• FULFILMENT (noun)
  The noun FULFILMENT has 2 senses:

1. a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires

2. the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc)

  Familiarity information: FULFILMENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FULFILMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

fulfillment; fulfilment

Hypernyms ("fulfilment" is a kind of...):

satisfaction (the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation)

Derivation:

fulfil (fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

fulfillment; fulfilment

Hypernyms ("fulfilment" is a kind of...):

consummation (the act of bringing to completion or fruition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fulfilment"):

self-fulfillment; self-realisation; self-realization (the fulfillment of your capacities)

Derivation:

fulfil (put in effect)

fulfil (meet the requirements or expectations of)

 Context examples 

And then I thought again of his words—“I will be with you on your wedding-night.” That, then, was the period fixed for the fulfilment of my destiny.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In fulfilment of the compact I have made with myself, to reflect my mind on this paper, I again examine it, closely, and bring its secrets to the light.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I am sure it is only necessary to put before so admirable a practitioner as Dr. Seward so simple, yet so momentous a wish, to ensure its fulfilment.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In the case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The heritage of law was hers, and right conduct, to her, was the fulfilment of the law.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

On the other hand, it would be a very grievous thing that you, the Prince of England and the flower of knighthood, should make a vow, whether in ignorance or no, and fail to bring it to fulfilment.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All along I had been dreading the fulfilment of this promise,—I had been looking out daily for the Coming Man, whose information respecting my past life and conversation was to brand me as a bad child for ever: now there he was.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The fulfilment of the second has not yet arrived.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And as even the memories dimmed and died in the darkness that fell upon him, he knew in her arms the fulfilment of all the ease and rest she had promised him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

All I ask you now is that you come with me, that you look and listen; and if when later I make the same request you do not be more eager for its fulfilment even than I am, then—then I shall do my duty, whatever it may seem to me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)