dissatisfaction
Other forms: dissatisfactions
When you're unhappy, disappointed, or annoyed about something, you feel a sense of dissatisfaction. Your dissatisfaction with your boring French class might inspire you to switch to beginning Mandarin.
An entire country's dissatisfaction with their government can lead to a new administration being voted in, or in the case of extreme dissatisfaction, a revolution. Your dissatisfaction with the pasta dish you ordered might simply make you ask for a hamburger instead. Dissatisfaction adds the dis-, or "lack of," prefix to satisfaction, which originally referred to "an act by a priest to atone for sin," but came to mean "contentment" by the 14th century.
Definitions of dissatisfaction
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the feeling of being displeased and discontent“he was never slow to express his dissatisfaction with the service he received”antonyms:satisfactionthe contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectationtypes:displeasurethe feeling of being displeased or annoyed or dissatisfied with someone or somethingdisappointment, letdowna feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realizedmalaisea vague sense of unease or dissatisfactionblahsa general feeling of boredom and dissatisfactionfatigue(always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to somethingdefeat, frustrationthe feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goalschagrina feeling of annoyance or distress due to disappointment or failuretype of:discontent, discontentedness, discontentmenta longing for something better than the present situation
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