Contentment definition

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A source of satisfaction.

The contentments of a comfortable retirement.

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The state, quality, or fact of being contented.
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The state of being contented; satisfaction.
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(archaic) A satisfying or being satisfied.
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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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The neurophysiological experience of satisfaction and being at ease in one's situation, body, and/or mind.
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The state or degree of being contented.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
contentment
Plural:
contentments

Origin of contentment

  • Middle French contentement; as content + -ment.

    From Wiktionary

Contentment Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • Her sigh was a mixture of contentment and relief.

  • 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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