Synonyms of contentment

contentment

noun

kən-ˈtent-mənt 

as in enjoyment

the feeling experienced when one's wishes are met

a couple of golden-agers looking over their life together with a feeling of contentment and accomplishment

Synonyms & Similar Words

• enjoyment
• happiness
• satisfaction
• pleasure
• content
• delight
• joy
• gratification
• contentedness
• gladness
• joyfulness
• relish
• glee
• delectation
• amusement
• bliss
• entertainment
• cheerfulness
• ecstasy
• elation
• comfort
• exultation
• euphoria
• exhilaration
• gayety
• felicity
• rapture
• exuberance
• intoxication
• jubilation
• gleefulness
• afterglow
• pleasance
• diversion
• jollity
• restfulness
• elatedness
• ease
• gaiety
• heaven
• cheer
• joie de vivre

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dissatisfaction
• discontent
• unhappiness
• sadness
• misery
• unhappiness
• sorrow
• displeasure
• wretchedness
• depression
• anguish
• discontentment
• woe
• anger
• discontentedness
• melancholy
• irritation
• dejection
• gloom
• desolation
• despondency
• distress
• exasperation
• annoyance
• joylessness
• fury
• aggravation
• rage
• vexation
• disturbance
• agitation
• discomfort
• restlessness
• uneasiness
• upset
• dispiritedness
• pique

Examples of contentment in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The other great danger to Cancer and Leo’s romantic domestic bliss is, most tragically, the establishment of peace and contentment. —Jennifer Culp, Them, 31 July 2024

Many people experience feelings of contentment or exhaustion brought on by the muscle contractions and hormonal release during orgasm. —Kelly Burch Updated, Verywell Health, 25 July 2024

Their fluffed head feathers were primarily associated with a state of contentment. —Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 July 2024

The projection of contentment, by Mayer and the others, can feel performative, self-satisfied, like the arrival onscreen of an ensemble television cast in the first episode of a seventh season. —Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024