Contentment vs. Happiness — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Contentment and Happiness
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Contentment
Contentment is an emotional state of satisfaction that can be seen as a mental state, maybe drawn from being at ease in one's situation, body and mind. Colloquially speaking, contentment could be a state of having accepted one's situation and is a milder and more tentative form of happiness.Contentment and the pursuit of contentment are possibly a central thread through many philosophical or religious schools across diverse cultures, times and geographies.
Happiness
The term happiness is used in the context of mental or emotional states, including positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. It is also used in the context of life satisfaction, subjective well-being, eudaimonia, flourishing and well-being.Since the 1960s, happiness research has been conducted in a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including gerontology, social psychology and positive psychology, clinical and medical research and happiness economics.
Contentment
A state of happiness and satisfaction
He found contentment in living a simple life in the country
Happiness
Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy
A happy child.
The happiest day of my life.
Contentment
The state of being contented; satisfaction.
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Happiness
Cheerful; willing
Happy to help.
Contentment
A source of satisfaction
The contentments of a comfortable retirement.
Happiness
Characterized by good luck
A happy sequence of events.
Contentment
The state or degree of being contented or satisfied.
Happiness
Being especially well-adapted; felicitous
A happy turn of phrase.
Contentment
Happiness in one's situation; satisfaction
Happiness
Characterized by a spontaneous or obsessive inclination to use something. Often used in combination
Trigger-happy.
Contentment
The neurophysiological experience of satisfaction and being at ease in one's situation, body, and/or mind.
Happiness
Enthusiastic about or involved with to a disproportionate degree. Often used in combination
Money-happy.
Clothes-happy.
Contentment
The state of being contented or satisfied; content.
Contentment without external honor is humility.
Godliness with contentment is great gain.
Happiness
(uncountable) The emotion of being happy; joy.
Contentment
The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice is impossible.
Happiness
Prosperity, thriving, wellbeing.
Contentment
Gratification; pleasure; satisfaction.
At Paris the prince spent one whole day to give his mind some contentment in viewing of a famous city.
Happiness
Good luck; good fortune.
Contentment
Happiness with one's situation in life
Happiness
Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; — used especially of language.
Happiness
Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.
All happiness bechance to thee in Milan!
Happiness
An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended with enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.
Happiness
Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; - used especially of language.
Some beauties yet no precepts can declare,For there's a happiness, as well as care.
O happiness! our being's end and aim!
Others in virtue place felicity,But virtue joined with riches and long life;In corporal pleasures he, and careless ease.
His overthrow heaped happiness upon him;For then, and not till then, he felt himself,And found the blessedness of being little.
Happiness
State of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy
Happiness
Emotions experienced when in a state of well-being
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