self-fulfilmentnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌself.fʊlˈfɪl.mənt/us/ˌself.fʊlˈfɪl.mənt/a feeling of satisfaction that you have achieved what you wanted:
When the options are unemployment or a boring job, having babies can seem like the only means of self-fulfilment.
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Satisfied and complacent
- at one with the world idiom
- be on to a good thing idiom
- complacency
- complacent
- content
- life
- nicely
- pride
- rest
- rest on your laurels idiom
- run
- sate
- sated
- satisfied
- self-satisfied
- smug
- smugly
- that'll do nicely idiom
- thing
- world
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self-fulfilled
adjective uk/ˌself.fʊlˈfɪld/us/ˌself.fʊlˈfɪld/