Self-complacency

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self-com·pla·cent (s

m-pl

nt)

adj.

Self-satisfied, often smugly so.

self-com·placen·cy n.

self-com·placent·ly adv.

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self-complacency - the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself; "his complacency was absolutely disgusting"

complacence, complacency, self-satisfaction

satisfaction - the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation; "the chef tasted the sauce with great satisfaction"

smugness - an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction

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complacence complacency satisfaction self-satisfaction smugness			By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane View in context When Charmolue had installed himself in a magisterial manner in his own, he seated himself, then rose and said, without exhibiting too much self-complacency at his success,--"The accused has confessed all. Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money. Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context			self-basting Self-begotten self-belief Self-binder Self-born self-catering self-censorship self-centered self-centeredness Self-centering Self-centration self-centred self-certification Self-charity self-cleaning self-closing self-collected Self-color self-colored self-coloured self-command Self-commune Self-communicative Self-communion self-compatible Self-complacency self-complacent self-composed self-composure self-conceit self-conceited self-conceitedly self-concept self-conception self-concern Self-condemnation self-confessed self-confidence self-confident self-congratulation Self-conjugate Self-conjugate triangle self-conscious self-consciously self-consciousness Self-considering Self-consistency Self-consistent self-constituted Self-consuming self-contained			Self-Clocked Fair Queueing Self-clocking Self-clocking signal self-closing self-closing device self-closing fire assembly self-closing fire door Self-Coherence Restoral Self-Cohering Array self-collected Self-color Self-color self-colored self-colored self-colored self-colour self-colour self-coloured self-coloured self-coloured self-command self-command Self-commune Self-communicative self-communing Self-communion Self-communion Self-Compacting Concrete self-compatibility self-compatible Self-complacency self-complacent self-complacently Self-Complementary Antenna self-complementary graph self-complementing code Self-Complimentary Planar Structure self-composed self-composure Self-conceit self-conceited self-conceitedly self-concept self-concept self-conception self-concepts self-concepts self-concern self-concerned self-condemnation self-condemnation self-condemnatory self-condemned self-condemned self-condemning Self-Conducted Tender Availability self-confessed self-confessedly self-confession

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