different between contentment vs recompence

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.

English

Noun

recompence (countable and uncountable, plural recompences)

1. Obsolete form of recompense.
   • c. 1598, Francis Bacon, An Account of […] Compositions for Alienations

     The fees , or allowances , that are termly given to these deputies , receiver , and clerks , for recompence of these their pains , I do purposely pretermit ; because they be not certain , but arbitrary

Verb

recompence (third-person singular simple present recompences, present participle recompencing, simple past and past participle recompenced)

1. Obsolete form of recompense.