CONTENTMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does contentment mean? • CONTENTMENT (noun)
The noun CONTENTMENT has 1 sense:
1. happiness with one's situation in life
Familiarity information: CONTENTMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CONTENTMENT (noun)
Meaning:
Happiness with one's situation in life
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("contentment" is a kind of...):
happiness (emotions experienced when in a state of well-being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "contentment"):
satisfaction (the contentment you feel when you have done something right)
Antonym:
discontentment (a longing for something better than the present situation)
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