dissatisfaction

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-

Proto-Italic *dis-

Latin dis-

Old French des-bor.

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Latin dis-bor.

Middle English dis-

English dis-

English satisfaction

English dissatisfaction

From dis- + satisfaction.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪsˌsætɪsˈfækʃən/
- Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /dɪsˌsætɪsˈfækʃən/, [dɪsˌsæɾɪsˈfækʃən]
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /dɪsˌsætɪsˈfækʃən/

Noun

dissatisfaction (countable and uncountable, plural dissatisfactions)

Unhappiness or discontent.
- 2013 August 23, Jonathan Steele, “The west has little influence in Egypt”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[1], volume 189, number 11, archived from the original on 5 January 2020, page 18:
  The coup was well-planned. Fuel was artificially held back so as to create shortages and dissatisfaction with Brotherhood rule. The old state-controlled unions mounted public sector strikes that further sabotaged the economy and annoyed people. Police-controlled thugs who had been used against the Tahrir Square demonstrations in 2011 came back into action.
- 2025 February 14, Heather Westwood, Will Mandy, Rebecca Brewer, “The Relationship Between Interoception, Alexithymia, Autistic Traits and Eating Pathology in Autistic Adults”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders‎^[2], →DOI:
  The hypothesis that the strength of the relationship between ED pathology and body image dissatisfaction would be weaker in the autistic group was not supported.
The cause of such feelings.

Derived terms

self-dissatisfaction

Translations

unhappiness or discontent — see also discontent,‎ malcontent,‎ malaise,‎ insatisfaction

Armenian: դժգոհություն (hy) (džgohutʻyun)
Belarusian: нездаво́ленасць f (njezdavóljenascʹ), нездавальне́нне n (njezdavalʹnjénnje)
Bulgarian: недово́лство (bg) n (nedovólstvo)
Catalan: insatisfacció f, descontentament (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 不滿 / 不满 (zh) (bùmǎn), 不滿足 / 不满足 (bù mǎnzú), 不滿意 / 不满意 (bù mǎnyì)
Czech: nespokojenost (cs) f
Danish: utilfredshed c
Dutch: ontevredenheid (nl) f
Finnish: tyytymättömyys (fi)
French: insatisfaction (fr) f, mécontentement (fr) m
German: Unzufriedenheit (de) f
Greek: δυσαρέσκεια (el) f (dysaréskeia), δυσαρέστηση (el) f (dysaréstisi)
Ancient Greek: δυσαρέστησις f (dusaréstēsis)
Hebrew: מורת רוח (he) f, חוסר סיפוק
Hungarian: elégedetlenség (hu)
Icelandic: óánægja f
Italian: insoddisfazione (it) f, scontentezza (it) f
Japanese: 不満 (ja) (ふまん, fuman), 不満足 (ja) (ふまんぞく, fumanzoku)
Kazakh: қанағаттанбаушылық (qanağattanbauşylyq)
Korean: 불만(不滿) (ko) (bulman), 불만족(不滿足) (bulmanjok)
Macedonian: незадоволство n (nezadovolstvo)
Malayalam: അസംതൃപ്തി (asantr̥pti), അതൃപ്തി (ml) (atr̥pti)
Māori: matangurunguru, nanu
Norwegian: utilfredshet (no), misnøye
Nynorsk: misnøye
Portuguese: descontentamento (pt) m, insatisfação (pt)
Romanian: insatisfacție (ro) f, nemulțumire (ro) f, neplăcere (ro) f
Russian: недово́льство (ru) n (nedovólʹstvo), неудовлетворённость (ru) f (neudovletvorjónnostʹ)
Spanish: disgusto (es) m
Swedish: missnöje (sv) n
Telugu: అసంతుష్టి (te) (asantuṣṭi)
Ukrainian: незадово́лення f (nezadovólennja), невдово́леність f (nevdovólenistʹ), невдово́лення c (nevdovólennja)

cause of such feelings

Chinese:
Mandarin: 不滿 / 不满 (zh) (bùmǎn), 不滿足 / 不满足 (bù mǎnzú), 不滿意 / 不满意 (bù mǎnyì)
Finnish: tyytymättömyyden aihe
Russian: неудовлетворённость (ru) f (neudovletvorjónnostʹ)