discontentment

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ contentment.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /dɪskənˈtɛntmənt/

Noun

discontentment (countable and uncountable, plural discontentments)

1. A state of dissatisfaction or discontent.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23, page 297:

     By this that ſtraunger knight in preſence came, / And goodly ſalued them; who nought againe / Him anſwered, as courteſie became, / But with ſterne lookes, and ſtomachous diſdaine, / Gaue ſignes of grudge and diſcontentment vaine: […]

Related terms

• discontent
• discontented