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Contentment vs Contentful - What's the difference?

contentment | contentful |

As a noun contentment

is the state or degree of being contented.

As an adjective contentful is

having content.

contentment

English

(wikipedia contentment)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • the state or degree of being contented
  • * 1908 ,
    • 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.
  • happiness in one's situation; satisfaction
  • the neurophysiological experience of satisfaction and being at ease in one's situation, body, and/or mind.

    • Antonyms

    * discontentment

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    contentful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having content
  • * {{quote-journal, 2007, date=October 25, Robert Hanna, Kantian non-conceptualism, Philosophical Studies, url=, doi=10.1007/s11098-007-9166-0, volume=137, issue=1, pages=
    • , passage=Indeed, it seems to me that the special character of non-conceptually contentful perceptual states entails that all perceptual states contain non-conceptual content in this essentially distinct sense
  • (obsolete) Full of contentment.
  • * Isaac Barrow
    • How contentful the whole life is of him, that neither deviseth mischief against others, nor suspects any to be contrived against himself.