insatisfaction

From in- +‎ satisfaction.

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 Brome , →OCLC:

     their insatisfaction herein begat that remarkable invention in the funeral pyres of some princes

2. (obsolete) insufficiency; emptiness
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:

     It is a profound contemplation in nature , to consider of the emptiness ( as we may call it ) or insatisfaction of several bodies

• “insatisfaction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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insatisfaction f (plural insatisfactions)

1. insatisfaction

• “insatisfaction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.