"complacency" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /kəmˈpleɪsənˌsiː/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-complacency.wav Forms: complacencies [plural]
Etymology: Late Middle English complacence, from Late Latin complacentia. Compare French complaisance. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|complacence}} Middle English complacence, {{der|en|LL.|complacentia}} Late Latin complacentia, {{lena}}, {{cog|fr|complaisance}} French complaisance Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} complacency (countable and uncountable, plural complacencies)
  1. A feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  2. An instance of self-satisfaction. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Emotions Translations (instance of self-satisfaction): complaisance [feminine] (French)
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  3. Passivity as a result of contentment with the current situation. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-complacency-en-noun-fDV2MzM8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: complacence [archaic] Derived forms: automation complacency, overcomplacency, self-complacency Related terms: complacent Translations (feeling of self-satisfaction): 自滿 (Chinese Mandarin), 自满 (zìmǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), samolibost [feminine] (Czech), sebeuspokojení [neuter] (Czech), uspokojení [neuter] (Czech), zelfgenoegzaamheid (Dutch), zelftevredenheid [feminine] (Dutch), memkontento (Esperanto), mielihyvä (Finnish), tyytyväisyys (Finnish), itsetyytyväisyys (Finnish), suffisance [feminine] (French), Selbstgefälligkeit [feminine] (German), Selbstzufriedenheit [feminine] (German), Bequemlichkeit [feminine] (German), Wohlbehagen [neuter] (German), εφησυχασμός (efisychasmós) [masculine] (Greek), önteltség (Hungarian), önhittség (Hungarian), önelégültség (Hungarian), elégedettség (Hungarian), sjálfumgleði [feminine] (Icelandic), sjálfsánægja [feminine] (Icelandic), autocompiacimento [masculine] (Italian), compiacimento [masculine] (Italian), autostima [feminine] (Italian), selvtilfredshet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), خودرضامندی (xod-rezâ-mandi) (Persian), samozadowolenie [neuter] (Polish), desvanecimento [masculine] (Portuguese), automulțumire [feminine] (Romanian), autoîncântare [feminine] (Romanian), самодово́льство (samodovólʹstvo) [neuter] (Russian), самоуве́ренность (samouvérennostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), somaltachd [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), samozadovoljstvo [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), suficiencia (Spanish), autocomplacencia [feminine] (Spanish), självbelåtenhet [common-gender] (Swedish), rehavet (Turkish), самозадово́леність (samozadovólenistʹ) (Ukrainian), самовдово́леність (samovdovólenistʹ) (Ukrainian)
Disambiguation of 'feeling of self-satisfaction': 48 50 2

Inflected forms

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    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
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    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
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      "word": "automation complacency"
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          "ref": "1712 January 4 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “MONDAY, December 24, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 256; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like in themselves.",
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          "ref": "1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 5, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:",
          "text": "[…] 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.",
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          "ref": "1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC:",
          "text": "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.",
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "word": "自滿"
    },
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      "roman": "zìmǎn",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "word": "自满"
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      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "word": "memkontento"
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      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
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      "code": "de",
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      "word": "Selbstgefälligkeit"
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      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
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      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Wohlbehagen"
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      "code": "el",
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      "roman": "efisychasmós",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "εφησυχασμός"
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      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "word": "önteltség"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "word": "önhittség"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "word": "önelégültség"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "word": "elégedettség"
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    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "sjálfumgleði"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "sjálfsánægja"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "autocompiacimento"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "compiacimento"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "autostima"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "selvtilfredshet"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "xod-rezâ-mandi",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "word": "خودرضامندی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "samozadowolenie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "desvanecimento"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "automulțumire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "autoîncântare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "samodovólʹstvo",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "самодово́льство"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "samouvérennostʹ",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "самоуве́ренность"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "somaltachd"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "samozadovoljstvo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "word": "suficiencia"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "autocomplacencia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "självbelåtenhet"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "word": "rehavet"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "samozadovólenistʹ",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "word": "самозадово́леність"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "samovdovólenistʹ",
      "sense": "feeling of self-satisfaction",
      "word": "самовдово́леність"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "instance of self-satisfaction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "complaisance"
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}

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