self-content
noun
satisfaction with oneself; self-complacency.
self-contentedness
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a word derived from
self-content.
Example Sentences
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His mind was full of that intense spiritual life of Catherine's which in its wonderful self-contentedness and strength was always a marvel, sometimes a reproach to him.
From Robert Elsmere by Mrs. Humphry Ward
The well-fed man is an animal because satiety is the self-contentedness of the body.
From The Man Who Was Afraid by Herman Bernstein
He would mention the ten years of his life, from twenty-five to thirty-five years of age, as a period very deficient in self-contentedness.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
