- the state, quality, or fact of being contented
- Archaic a satisfying or being satisfied
Origin of contentment
Middle English contentement from Old French
noun
The definition of contentment is the state of being satisfied or the source of satisfaction.
An example of contentment is being completely happy.
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noun
- The state of being contented; satisfaction.
- A source of satisfaction: the contentments of a comfortable retirement.
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Noun
(usually uncountable, plural contentments)
- the state or degree of being contented
- happiness in one's situation; satisfaction
- the neurophysiological experience of satisfaction and being at ease in one's situation, body, and/or mind.
Origin
Middle French contentement; as content + -ment.
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Sentence Examples
- "If man is to find contentment in God, he must find himself in God."
- In the presidential election of 1880 the Republican party carried the day after an unusually quiet canvass, a result largely due to popular contentment with the then existing state of public affairs.
- The history of the country became one of peaceful progress marked by the growing contentment of the people.
- Cobden was thus relegated to private life, and retiring to his country house at Dunford, he spent his time in perfect contentment in cultivating his land and feeding his pigs.
- She was truly beautiful, resting there, color beginning to return to her cheeks and a look of contentment that only sleep could bring, a look that would surely be absent in the morning.
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WORDS NEAR contentment IN THE DICTIONARY
- contentment
- contentiously
- contentiousness
- contentless