self-content

[ self-kuhn-tent, self- ]

noun

1. satisfaction with oneself; self-complacency.

adjective

1. content with oneself; self-satisfied.

Other Words From

• self-con·tented·ly adverb
• self-con·tented·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-content¹

First recorded in 1645–55

Example Sentences

To be an individual, to be self-content — those are nice qualities for a life.

From New York Times

In a section of the document titled “Signs of Holiness in Today’s World,” the pope explicitly laments a modern culture that includes “the self-content bred by consumerism; individualism; and all those forms of ersatz spirituality — having nothing to do with God — that dominate the current religious marketplace.”

From New York Times

Challenges “To be absolutely certain that one isn’t feeling smug or self-content. One’s got to go on concentrating on everything as if it was a new piece.”

From New York Times

Cricket is linked with the Golden Age of English power and self-content, the idyll that supposedly existed before the First World War.

From Newsweek

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the peace of their self-content; There are souls, like stars, that dwell apart, In a fellow-less firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran:— But let me live by the side of the road And be a friend to man.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• confidence
• dignity
• morale
• self-respect