contentedness
Example Sentences
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The country is regularly billed as one of the happiest places on Earth, based on studies that purport to rank national contentedness.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2022
There’s some muted anger at the media’s fixation on her tragic family, plus a dash of vague contentedness about the joys of motherhood.
From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2022
And through Barry Jenkins' interpretation of Colson Whitehead's novel Harper realizes Royal as a lionhearted man who exercises patience and contentedness as the golden virtues they're meant to be while never ceding his strength.
From Salon • Dec. 26, 2021
Either I was approaching some new state of equanimity and contentedness or I was depressed.
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2021
Inside their cedar tree, for nearly four years, he and Hatsue had held one another with the dreamy contentedness of young lovers.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
