fulfillment.

1. The satisfaction of a requirement, obligation, promise or expectation.

2. A sense of personal satisfaction associated with realizing valued aims.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• fulfillment of a condition
• fulfillment of an obligation

On the page

Fulfillment of the condition allowed the agreement to take effect.

The report documented fulfillment of the obligation rather than merely an intention to comply.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: requirements and constraints, institutional organization, formal assessment, system properties. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis, institutional studies. Commonness: moderately common.