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English
Etymology
From Middle French contentement. By surface analysis, content + -ment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənˈtɛntmənt/
- Hyphenation: con‧tent‧ment
Noun
contentment (usually uncountable, plural contentments)
- The state or degree of being contented or satisfied.
1620, Giovanni Bocaccio, translated by John Florio, The Decameron, Containing an Hundred Pleaſant Nouels: Wittily Diſcourſed, Betweene Seuen Honourable Ladies, and Three Noble Gentlemen[1], Isaac Iaggard, Nouell 8, The Eighth Day:[…] purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy 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
- Arabic: رِضَا (ar) (riḍā)
- Bulgarian: задоволство (bg) n (zadovolstvo)
- Esperanto: kontento
- Finnish: tyytyväisyys (fi)
- French: contentement (fr) m
- German: Zufriedenheit (de), Genügsamkeit (de)
- Greek: ικανοποίηση (el) f (ikanopoíisi)
- Hindi: संतुष्टि (hi) f (santuṣṭi), संतोष (hi) m (santoṣ), तृप्ति (hi) f (tŕpti)
- Hungarian: elégedettség (hu), megelégedés (hu), megelégedettség (hu)
- Irish: sástacht f, suáilceas m
- Māori: uruhautanga
- Marathi: समाधान (mr) n (samādhān)
- Polish: zadowolenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: contentamento (pt), satisfação (pt)
- Romanian: satisfacție (ro) f, mulțumire (ro) f
- Russian: удовлетворённость (ru) f (udovletvorjónnostʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: suaimhneas m
- Serbo-Croatian: zadovoljstvo (sh)
- Spanish: contentamiento (es) m, satisfacción (es) f, contentura f, contenteza (es) f
- Turkish: hoşnutluk (tr), iktifa (tr)
- Ukrainian: задово́лення n (zadovólennja), задово́леність f (zadovólenistʹ)
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Further reading
- “contentment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “contentment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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