as in dissatisfaction
the condition of being dissatisfied with one's life or situation
he was left with a vague feeling of discontentedness even after he got the car he had always wanted
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Noun
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Tehran has made the unfreezing of its assets a key demand in talks, hoping for relief months after unrest that was fueled in part by economic dissatisfaction.—
Chantal Da Silva,
NBC news,
15 June 2026 -
Body dissatisfaction, then, may not be solely located in the individual body or psyche.—
Virgie Tovar,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
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The ultimate outcome, then, was that, by the end of the seventies, Margaret Thatcher had been able to bring the various discontents mixed up in that into a kind of big-tent project within a mainstream center-right party.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
12 June 2026
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As discontent with the government grows, more Cubans aspire to regime change rather than reform.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
12 June 2026
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“Discontentedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discontentedness. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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