contentedness

1. 1.

   the state of being contented with your situation in life

   “he relaxed in sleepy contentedness”

   “they could read to their heart's content”

   Synonymscontent

   Broaderacceptance

Other forms of contentedness

plural

contentednesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about contentedness

What does contentedness mean?

contentedness means "the state of being contented with your situation in life".

How many syllables are in contentedness?

contentedness has 4 syllables: con-ten-ted-ness. The stress falls on "ten".

What is another word for contentedness?

Close synonyms include content. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is contentedness a common word?

contentedness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.