Contentment

Origin

Middle French contentement; as content + -ment.

Full definition of contentment

Noun

1. the state or degree of being contented
• 1908, Kenneth Grahame, Then they got out their boat from the boat-house, sculled down the river home, and at a very late hour sat down to supper in their own cosy riverside parlour, to the Rat's great joy and contentment.
2. happiness in one's situation; satisfaction
3. the neurophysiological experience of satisfaction and being at ease in one's situation, body, and/or mind.

Antonyms

• discontentment