What is the difference between contentment and satisfaction?
contentment | satisfaction |
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.
A fulfillment of a need or desire.
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The pleasure obtained by such fulfillment.
*(Henry David Thoreau) (1817-1862)
*:This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction .
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*:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction , looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
The source of such gratification.
A reparation for an injury or loss.
A vindication for a wrong suffered.
Satisfaction is a antonym of contentment.
As nouns the difference between contentment and satisfaction
is that contentment is the state or degree of being contented while satisfaction is a fulfillment of a need or desire.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.