complacency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Late Middle English complacence, from Late Latin complacentia. Compare French complaisance.
Inflected forms:
form: complacencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: complacence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like in themselves.
[…] looking at Mr. George Osborne's pale interesting countenance, and those beautiful black, curling, shining whiskers, which the young gentleman himself regarded with no ordinary complacency, she thought in her little heart that in His Majesty's army, or in the wide world, there never was such a face or such a hero.
There was something pathetic in his concentration as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more. When, almost immediately, the telephone rang inside and the butler left the porch Daisy seized upon the momentary interruption and leaned toward me.
"However, incidents such as the derailment at Walton-on-Thames clearly show us that there is no room for complacency."
gloss: An instance of self-satisfaction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Passivity as a result of contentment with the current situation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: complacent
Derived words: automation complacency
overcomplacency
self-complacency
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 自滿 /自满
roman: zìmǎn
lang: Czech
word: samolibost
lang: Czech
word: sebeuspokojení
lang: Czech
word: uspokojení
lang: Dutch
word: zelfgenoegzaamheid
lang: Dutch
word: zelftevredenheid
lang: Esperanto
word: memkontento
lang: Finnish
word: mielihyvä
lang: Finnish
word: tyytyväisyys
lang: Finnish
word: itsetyytyväisyys
lang: French
word: suffisance
lang: German
word: Selbstgefälligkeit
lang: German
word: Selbstzufriedenheit
lang: German
word: Bequemlichkeit
lang: German
word: Wohlbehagen
lang: Greek
word: εφησυχασμός
roman: efisychasmós
lang: Greek
word: αυταρέσκεια
roman: aftaréskeia
lang: Hungarian
word: önteltség
lang: Hungarian
word: önhittség
lang: Hungarian
word: önelégültség
lang: Hungarian
word: elégedettség
lang: Icelandic
word: sjálfumgleði
lang: Icelandic
word: sjálfsánægja
lang: Italian
word: autocompiacimento
lang: Italian
word: compiacimento
lang: Italian
word: autostima
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: selvtilfredshet
lang: Persian
word: خودرضامندی
roman: xod-rezâ-mandi
lang: Polish
word: samozadowolenie
lang: Portuguese
word: desvanecimento
lang: Romanian
word: automulțumire
lang: Romanian
word: autoîncântare
lang: Russian
word: самодово́льство
roman: samodovólʹstvo
lang: Russian
word: самоуве́ренность
roman: samouvérennostʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: somaltachd
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: samozadovoljstvo
lang: Spanish
word: suficiencia
lang: Spanish
word: autocomplacencia
lang: Swedish
word: självbelåtenhet
lang: Turkish
word: rehavet
lang: Ukrainian
word: самозадово́леність
roman: samozadovólenistʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: самовдово́леність
roman: samovdovólenistʹ