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Definition of Self-complacency
1. Noun. The feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself. "His complacency was absolutely disgusting"
Generic synonyms: Satisfaction
Specialized synonyms: Smugness
Derivative terms: Complacent, Complacent, Self-complacent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-complacency
Literary usage of Self-complacency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"... but gifted with an irritating self-complacency and prone to reject advice,
especially when it is given with an affectation of superiority. ..."
2. Winter Evenings: Or Lucubrations on Life and Letters. by Vicesimus Knox (1805)
"I ''HERE is a kind of self-complacency which arises A solely from ... But there
is also another kind of self-complacency, which is founded on solid and ..."
3. Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology, and the History of Philosophy by Alexander Bain (1870)
"self-complacency expresses the act of deriving pleasure from mentally revolving
one's own merits, excellencies, productions, and imposing adjuncts. ..."
4. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... Laughed at a poverty that paid its taxes, And hugged his rags in self-complacency
1 Not such should be the homesteads of a land Where whoso wisely wills ..."
5. Southern Writers: Biographical and Critical Studies by William Malone Baskervill (1896)
"Sometimes, too, the poet's life is strangely at variance with his message, and
the world satisfies its dull self-complacency by simply telling the " truth ..."
6. The British Essayists by James Ferguson (1823)
"On the most effectual Means of promoting Self- Complacency. ... But there is also
another kind of self-complacency, which is founded on solid and virtuous ..."
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