contentment
English
Etymology
Middle French contentement; synchronically analyzable as content + -ment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənˈtɛntmənt/
Noun
contentment (usually uncountable, plural contentments)
- 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.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- happiness in one's situation; satisfaction
- the neurophysiological experience of satisfaction and being at ease in one's situation, body, and/or mind.
Antonyms
Translations
state or degree of being contented
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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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