discontentment

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/dɪskənˈtɛntmənt/

noun

A state of dissatisfaction or discontent.

Similar
discontentdiscontentedness
Opposite
contentment
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Meanings

noundiscontentment (countable and uncountable, plural discontentments)

plural discontentments

  1. countableuncountableA state of dissatisfaction or discontent.

    By this that ſtraunger knight in preſence came, / And goodly ſalued them; who nought againe / Him anſwered, as courteſie became, / But with ſterne lookes, and ſtomachous diſdaine, / Gaue ſignes of grudge and diſcontentment vaine: […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23, page 297

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna longing for something better than the present situation

Similar
discontentdiscontentedness
Opposite
contentment
Broader
longingyearninghungriness
Also see
discontentdiscontentednessdispleasure

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From dis- + contentment.

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Translations

Spanish descontentamiento
  • descontentamientodiscontent
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Chicago

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