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disconˈtentedness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being discontented; discontent, dissatisfaction.
1597Daniel Civ. Wars viii. iii, For those high purposes He had conceived in discontentedness. 1653Manton Exp. James iii. 14 Envy..is Discontentedness at another man's good and prosperous estate. 1764Mem. G. Psalmanazar 100 What added still more to my discontentedness was, that [etc.]. 1881Masson Carlyle in Macm. Mag. XLV. 150 A soul..whose cardinal peculiarity should be despondency, discontentedness, and sense of pain. |