contentment
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French contentement; synchronically analyzable as content + -ment.
Pronunciation
Noun
contentment (usually uncountable, plural contentments)
- the state or degree of being contented or satisfied.
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- 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.
- 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “contentment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.