contentment

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French contentement; synchronically analyzable as content +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈtɛntmənt/

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

state or degree of being contented

• Arabic: الرضا
• Bulgarian: задоволство (bg) n (zadovolstvo)
• Esperanto: kontento
• French: contentement (fr) m
• German: Zufriedenheit (de), Genügsamkeit (de)
• Greek: ικανοποίηση (el) f (ikanopoíisi)
• Hungarian: elégedettség (hu), megelégedés (hu), megelégedettség (hu)
• Irish: sástacht f, suáilceas m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: uruhautanga
• Portuguese: contente (pt), satisfeito (pt), realizado (pt)
• Romanian: satisfacție (ro) f, mulțumire (ro) f
• Russian: удовлетворённость (ru) f (udovletvorjónnostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: suaimhneas m
• Serbo-Croatian: zadovoljstvo (sh)
• Spanish: satisfacción (es) f

Further reading

• “contentment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “contentment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.