Definition of Complacency

1. Noun. The feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself. "His complacency was absolutely disgusting"

Exact synonyms: Complacence, Self-complacency, Self-satisfaction
Generic synonyms: Satisfaction
Specialized synonyms: Smugness
Derivative terms: Complacent, Complacent, Self-complacent

Definition of Complacency

1. Noun. A feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble. ¹

2. Noun. An instance of self-satisfaction ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Complacency

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Literary usage of Complacency

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. 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 ..."

2. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including A Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1831)
"Aug. thief whom he pardoned on the cross." What follows was supplied by Dr. Dodd himself. [Dr. Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale with some degree of complacency, ..."

3. The Law of Love and Love as a Law, Or, Christian Ethics by Mark Hopkins (1881)
"PERFECTION AS RELATED TO complacency. The third way of benefiting others through a care for our own state, is by awakening in them the 'oy of complacency. ..."

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