Word for the satisfaction of curiosity
There is a good feeling you get when your curiosity is satisfied, especially if is about a question you found interesting or important, or have spent a lot of time and energy trying to answer. Depending on how much I wanted to know, this feeling can be quite pleasing. Is there a word specifically for either the satisfaction of a curiosity, or the feeling that results?
I feel sated when a need has been fulfilled, including curiosity, for example: "Learning of the contents of the box in the movie "7" has sated my, and Brad Pitt's, curiosity."
from MWO:
Sate - verb, Sated - adjective
"having one's appetite completely satisfied"
This is what you get from Google Books Search, with the search term, curiosity was [v*]
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The best options seem to be:
- satisfied
- gratified
- appeased
- sated
- fed
All these words are quite generic, though. I did not see anything relevant that goes better with "curiosity" than with anything else.
After I have been satisfied I feel very content.
a state of satisfaction.
If I am obnoxiously satisfied with a little smirk, one might say I am smug.
an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction