Definition
[n] something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation; "a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject"
[n] the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
[n] what a communication that is about something is about
[n] everything that is included in a collection; "he emptied the contents of his pockets"; "the two groups were similar in content"
[n] the amount that can be contained; "the gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons"
[n] the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc.
[n] the state of being contented with your situation in life; "he relaxed in sleepy contentedness"; "they could read to their heart's content"
[v] satisfy in a limited way; "He contented himself with one glass of beer per day"
[v] make content; "I am contented"
The subject matter of a poem - as opposed to the form.
Synonyms
capacity, cognitive content, contentedness, depicted object, mental object, message, subject, subject matter, substance
See Also...
acceptance, acculturation, accumulation, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, aggregation, approval, aside, assemblage, belief, body, center, circumscribe, cognition, collection, commendation, commitment, communication, confine, core, corker, counsel, counseling, counselling, culture, dedication, digression, direction, disapproval, disbelief, discourtesy, disrespect, divagation, drivel, education, end, entity, entry, essence, excursus, experience, food, food for thought, gist, goal, gratify, guidance, heart, heart and soul, hokum, humor, humour, idea, ignorance, import, info, information, insertion, instruction, intellectual nourishment, internal representation, interpolation, inwardness, issue, kernel, knowledge, knowledge base, knowledge domain, latent content, limit, lore, marrow, matter, meaning, meaninglessness, meat, memorial, mental representation, metaknowledge, mush, narration, narrative, nitty-gritty, noesis, nonsense, nonsensicality, noumenon, nub, object, offer, offering, opinion, packaging, parenthesis, petition, physical thing, pith, postulation, promotion, promotional material, proportion, proportionality, proposal, publicity, refusal, reminder, representation, request, respects, satisfy, scene, sensationalism, shocker, significance, signification, statement, story, subject, subject, submission, substance, sum, tale, theme, thing-in-itself, thought, topic, topic, tradition, traditional knowledge, treacle, unbelief, universe, universe of discourse, view, view, vital capacity, volume, wisdom, wit, witticism, wittiness
Related Terms
acceptance, accepting, accommodation, accordant, achieve inner harmony, acquiescent, acquiescing, affirmative, agreeable, agreed, agreeing, alacritous, amenable, amusement, animal pleasure, appease, approving, ardent, assentatious, assenting, at ease, bew
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