Contentment vs Composure - What's the difference?
contentment | composure |
the state or degree of being contented
* 1908 ,
happiness in one's situation; satisfaction
the neurophysiological experience of satisfaction and being at ease in one's situation, body, and/or mind.
Calmness of mind or matter, self-possession.
* Milton
* I. Watts
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(obsolete) The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.
* Evelyn
(obsolete) Orderly adjustment; disposition.
* Woodward
(obsolete) frame; make; temperament
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A combination; a union; a bond.
As nouns the difference between contentment and composure
is that contentment is the state or degree of being contented while composure is calmness of mind or matter, self-possession.contentment
English
(wikipedia contentment)Noun
(en-noun)- 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.
Antonyms
* discontentmentExternal links
* *composure
English
Noun
- We seek peace and composure .
- When the passions are all silent, the mind enjoys its most perfect composure .
- “Did you want anything, ma’am?” I enquired, still preserving my external composure , in spite of her ghastly countenance and strange exaggerated manner.
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- Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure [in music] and teaching.
- Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
- His composure must be rare indeed / Whom these things can not blemish.
- (Shakespeare)