satisfice

verb
/ˈsætɪsfaɪs/

Etymology

Blend of satisfy + suffice, coined by American political scientist and psychologist Herbert A. Simon in 1956.

  1. derived from sufficiō
  2. derived from souffire
  3. inherited from suffisen
  4. compounded as satisfice — “satisfy + suffice

Definitions

  1. To satisfy.

  2. Of human behavior

    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.

    • Evidently, organisms adapt well enough to ‘satisfice’; they do not, in general, ‘optimize’.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for satisfice. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA