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Definition of Self-satisfaction
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
Definition of Self-satisfaction
1. Noun. A feeling of fulfillment or contentment with respect to one's own accomplishments or situation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-satisfaction
Literary usage of Self-satisfaction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green, Richard Lewis Nettleship (1890)
"... the requirements of conventional morality, so that the modes in which he seeks
self-satisfaction are regulated by the sense of what is expected of him. ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"As to myself, I am perfectly composed, as I have the self-satisfaction of feeling,
I have done my duty. Though I think Mr. Pitt's day will be fully taken up ..."
3. The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
"Translation — except for an artistic motive, and with ample leisure — never pays,
either in self-satisfaction or anything else. ..."
4. Ethic Demonstrated in Geometrical Order: And Divided Into Five Parts, which by Benedictus de Spinoza (1883)
"self-satisfaction may arise from reason, and the self-satisfaction alone which
... self-satisfaction is the joy which arises from a man's contemplating ..."
5. Ethic: Demonstrated in Geometrical Order, and Divided Into Five Parts, which by Benedictus de Spinoza, William Hale White, Amelia Hutchison Stirling (1894)
"self-satisfaction may arise from reason, and the self-satisfaction alone which
... self-satisfaction is the joy which arises from a man's contemplating ..."
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