Contentment is the quiet satisfied feeling of wanting nothing more. Find contentment, a look of contentment, quiet contentment.
It is lower and steadier than happiness and it is defined by absence — nothing is missing — which is why it is so hard to pursue directly. Contentment is natural riches is Socrates by way of Cicero. Note content, both the adjective and the noun; and that the Latin means held together, from continere.
1nouncontentmentThe quiet satisfied feeling of wanting nothing more.
“The old man sat on the porch with his pipe, smiling with quiet contentment.”
contentment is a state of satisfaction.
Middle French contentement comes from content, from Latin contentus, contained or satisfied, from continere, to hold together.
Middle French
contentement
English, today
contentment
From Middle French contentement. by surface analysis, content + -ment.
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