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contentedness

[ kuhn-ten-tid-nis ]

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noun

the state or condition of being satisfied and not needing or wanting anything more or anything else:
In my adoptive family there were unpleasant challenges, but also moments of deep contentedness, unexpected belonging, and joy.

First recorded in 1575–85; contented ( def ) + -ness ( )

He was averse to costly pleasures, and regarded contentedness with a little to be a great good.

Health is the greatest of gifts, contentedness the best riches; trust is the best of relatives, Nirvana the highest happiness.

Contentedness in all accidents brings great peace of spirit, and is the great and only instrument of temporal felicity.

In a contentedness with that degree and state which God hath assigned us.

She did not know she was humble-minded and of an angelic contentedness of spirit.

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