Talk:comfort
Getting a grip on Comfort & Contentment[edit]
Contentment is more than comfort, although comfort is portion of contentment. Contentment includes satisfaction, peacefulness and serenity. A person can be comfortable, without the feeling of satisfaction or serenity. Example: A medical patient after surgery.
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"To make comfortable". You would not say "this chair will comfort you", as far as I know. Equinox ◑ 08:58, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
- OED has this sense; it hasn't been expanded since NED (verb sense 8). In the quotes, someone is said to be comforted by a stove, and an advertisement (presumably this one - isn't the Internet magical!) describes a beverage as "comforting". The sense is more nuanced than just "to make comfortable" - it is more like "to cause (someone) to be in a state of physical comfort", which is arguably captured by sense 1's broad "to provide comfort to". This, that and the other (talk) 11:22, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
- Interesting. Describing beverages as "comforting" is a common thing (cites), but maybe that's just what we have as comforting#Adjective. Here someone is both "comforted" and "cheered" by a stove, seemingly in the same way he might be comforted and cheered by the thought of some positive thing, which does suggest that this should perhaps just be viewed as the "usual" sense 1 of both "comfort" and "cheer"... - -sche (discuss) 23:23, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
- RFV-failed / merged into sense 1 as not distinct from it. - -sche (discuss) 14:55, 22 March 2024 (UTC)