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contentment

English

Etymology

Middle French contentement; synchronically analyzable as content +? -ment.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k?n?t?ntm?nt/

Noun

contentment (usually uncountable, plural contentments)

  1. The state or degree of being contented or satisfied.
    • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
      Then they got out their boat from the boat-house, sculled down the river home, and at a very late hour sat down to supper in their own cosy riverside parlour, to the Rat's great joy and contentment.
  2. happiness in one's situation; satisfaction
  3. The neurophysiological experience of satisfaction and being at ease in one's situation, body, and/or mind.

Antonyms

  • discontent, discontentment, dissatisfaction

Translations

Further reading

  • contentment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • contentment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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