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
These interesting and extremely human but abstract dissatisfactions suffer by dint of the forced comparison to crappy conditions real people really lived with during the pandemic.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2021
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
He added, “Perhaps my basic dissatisfactions are what motivate me.”
From New York Times ● May 19, 2017
"I wish," Bailly answered, "I could graft on your brain some of Allen's mental processes, even his dissatisfactions."
From The Guarded Heights by Wadsworth Camp
