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

state or degree of being contented

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

• Portuguese: contente (pt), satisfeito (pt), realizado (pt)
• Romanian: satisfacție (ro) f, mulțumire (ro) f
• Russian: удовлетворённость (ru) f (udovletvorjónnostʹ)
• 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