contentment

English

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Etymology

French contentement; as content + -ment.

Noun

contentment (usually uncountable; plural contentments)

1. the state or degree of being contented
   • 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

• discontentment

Translations

Translations

Arabic: الرضا (ar) Esperanto: kontento (eo) French: contentement (fr) m. German: Zufriedenheit (de), Genügsamkeit (de) Greek: ικανοποίηση (el) (ikanopoíisi) f.

Portuguese: contente (pt), satisfeito (pt), realizado (pt) Scottish Gaelic: suaimhneas (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: zadovoljstvo (sh) Spanish: satisfacción (es) f.

External links

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