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contentment

noun as in comfort, happiness

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Prior to landing at Peloton, Treseder had worked the marketing circuit at major companies like Apple and General Electric, building her career on the foundation of mother’s mantra of ambition with contentment within each role.

From Digiday

This pad provides moist heat or chilly contentment with its organic filling and soft fabric.

It’s about finding the right balance between being and doing, contentment and striving, for your own unique temperament.

Unless cats are hungry or mating or directly threatened, they default to a condition of rest or contentment or tranquility — basically the opposite of humans.

From Vox

Fogel includes footage of Khashoggi sinking into this big, puffy chair, his face radiant with contentment he feels he has finally earned, just within reach.

From Time

I envy my refusenik friends their steadfast commitments to stay in, and contentment in doing so.

Whatever peace and contentment Adams has found seldom finds its way into his music.

Sudden peace, buoyancy, contentment, or alternatively sorrow or physical pain.

Vengeance is a much more satisfying reason to spend the time than bland contentment.

And not that after-sex glow, but the radiance of contentment.

The speech came to an abrupt end when, losing her balance, she fell to the ground, and lay there in drunken contentment.

And a hint of mothering contentment stole sweetly over him behind this shadowy yet genuine consolation.

He succeeded, however, and soon was puffing clouds of pungent smoke into the air with the utmost contentment.

An industrious housewife, she hummed the hymns of contentment and peace from morning till evening.

Following this he sighed with a great contentment and twiddled his bare toes openly and flagrantly in the eyes of all Coldriver.

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On this page you'll find 58 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to contentment, such as: complacency, fulfillment, gratification, pleasure, satisfaction, and serenity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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