: lack of satisfaction with one's possessions, status, or situation : lack of contentment: a : a sense of grievance : dissatisfaction the winter of our discontent— William Shakespeare. b : restless aspiration (see aspiration sense 1a) for improvement.

Is there a word discontentment?

Unhappiness caused by the failure of one's hopes, desires, or expectations: disappointment, discontent, disgruntlement, dissatisfaction, letdown, regret.

How do you use discontentment in a sentence?

Popular discontentment grew with the king's and duke's excesses. She then entrusted rule to a favorite, a lowly tarkhan, causing discontentment within the upper nobility. As punishment to the rising sense of discontentment, many military officers and public officials were exiled.