dissatisfaction
noun
the state or attitude of not being satisfied; discontent; displeasure.
dissatisfactions
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pluralof dissatisfaction.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But “The Book of Ayn” is rife with dissatisfactions — to its credit — and with self-aware jokes and serious questions about self-awareness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
It is not surprising, according to Vásquez, because “places in conflict produce fiction: Fiction is where all the anxieties and discontent, the dissatisfactions and fears of a society, filter down.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
So The Mars Trilogy comes out of my dissatisfactions with the constraints I had set on myself with Pacific Edge.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2020
The Harvard economics professor Ken Rogoff points out that many of the dissatisfactions it seeks to address would be more effectively achieved by a rigorous assault on monopolies than a take-down of the free market.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2018
The causes of the attractive or positive type, on the other hand, are in a foreign environment, and operate often by stimulating dissatisfactions through comparison.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various
