Contentment Definition

kən-tĕntmənt
noun
The state, quality, or fact of being contented.
Webster's New World
A satisfying or being satisfied.
Webster's New World
A source of satisfaction.
The contentments of a comfortable retirement.
American Heritage

Happiness in one's situation; satisfaction.

Wiktionary

The neurophysiological experience of satisfaction and being at ease in one's situation, body, and/or mind.

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Other Word Forms of Contentment

Noun

Singular:
contentment
Plural:
contentments

Origin of Contentment

  • Middle French contentement; as content + -ment.

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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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Words Starting With

CCOCON

Words Ending With

TNTENT

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Words Starting With C and Ending With T

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Word Length

11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With C11 Letter Words Ending With T