contentment
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2.1
- noun
- /kənˈtɛntmənt/
:
satisfacción
- After years of hard work, she finally found contentment in her simple life.
- happiness and contentment
- joy and contentment
- perfect contentment
We, we can't add our way to contentment, to joy, to peace.
- We, we can't add our way to contentment, to joy, to peace.
- And then we confuse contentment for joy.
- How do we teach the next generation about contentment worth and moderation?
- Like there's just so much satisfaction and contentment in doing the work.
- Yes, you will feel a weight lifted, but you won't experience lasting contentment by simply tidying up.
- You can't buy peace, joy, happiness, contentment, and you certainly cannot buy eternal life.
- So there's a kind of contentment, a kind of rest available in the Grove.
- So what things in your life give you that sense of contentment?
- And as you get older, the statements drift steadily towards feelings of contentment or connectedness.
- Happiness is a state of calm and peaceful contentment.
- So if we look at like the sense of contentment, peace, this correlates with serotonin.
- And what you really miss is a contentment in a presence.
Examples
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We spent two hours of contentment over a few glasses of raki.
Fiction book (1994) -
The room was full of a warm, easy contentment that somehow was soothing even to him.
Fiction book (1992) -
So for that contentment, practice of contentment is very good.
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Why should my people feel anything but pride and contentment?
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We get to experience peace, contentment and delight.
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You have felt the love and contentment of a pure existence.
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In that very same fire, I found contentment and an escape from emotions.
Fiction book (1990) -
Stability and contentment have been achieved.
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"I believe very firmly in the health benefits of relaxation and simple contentment," she says.
Academic text (2009) -
It has long been my dream to find the perfect way for people to achieve simply... happiness, contentment, inner peace.
Synonyms
970
1.0
A feeling of pleasure and being satisfied
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2.2
A pleasant feeling when you achieve something or your needs are met
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1.0
A feeling of being happy with what you have
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3.2
A complete feeling of great happiness and peace
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3.6
A feeling of happiness and satisfaction when you achieve something important
1
3.7
A feeling of complete happiness
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4.3
A feeling of being satisfied and at ease with life
Antonyms
How Content
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Contentment comes from the Latin contentus, made of con- 'together' and tenere 'to hold', the same root you see in contain. So, think of being 'held together' and 'satisfied' with what you have, which is why contentment means calm happiness and satisfaction.