insatisfaction

English

Etymology

in- +‎ satisfaction

Noun

insatisfaction (countable and uncountable, plural insatisfactions)

  1. (obsolete) dissatisfaction
    • 1658, Thomas Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], OCLC 48702491; reprinted as Hydriotaphia (The English Replicas), New York, N.Y.: Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1927, OCLC 78413388:
      their insatisfaction herein begat that remarkable invention in the funeral pyres of some princes
  2. (obsolete) insufficiency; emptiness
    • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “8. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
      It is a profound contemplation in nature , to consider of the emptiness ( as we may call it ) or insatisfaction of several bodies

References
  • insatisfaction in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

French

Noun

insatisfaction f (plural insatisfactions)

  1. insatisfaction

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