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Purging vs Contentment - What's the difference?

purging | contentment |

As nouns the difference between purging and contentment

is that purging is the act by which something is purged while contentment is the state or degree of being contented.

As a verb purging

is .

purging

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is purged.
  • (medicine) vomiting
  • * 1849 , The Journal of Health and Disease (page 98)
    • He had violent pains in his belly, and purgings

    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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