n.

1. A feeling of contentment or self-satisfaction, especially when coupled with an unawareness of danger, trouble, or controversy.
2. An instance of contented self-satisfaction.

n

Definition: smugness
Antonyms: dissatisfaction

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself
  Synonyms: complacence, self-complacency, self-satisfaction

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Quotes:

"These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed." - Walter Benjamin

"Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth." - John Jay Chapman

"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong." - John Kenneth Galbraith

"They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors." - Maurice Maeterlinck

"America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind." - Norman Mailer

"They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular." - John Morley

See more famous quotes about Complacency

Dansk (Danish)
n. - selvtilfredshed, velbehag

Nederlands (Dutch)
zelfgenoegzaamheid, onoplettendheid door zelfvoldaanheid

Français (French)
n. - suffisance, contentement de soi, satisfaction, contentement

Deutsch (German)
n. - Selbstzufriedenheit, Selbstgefälligkeit

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αυταρέσκεια, εφησυχασμός

Italiano (Italian)
compiacimento, soddisfazione, autocompiacimento, boria, soddisfazione di sé, compiacenza

Português (Portuguese)
n. - complacência (f), satisfação (f)

Русский (Russian)
самодовольство

Español (Spanish)
n. - satisfacción de sí mismo, complacencia

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - självbelåtenhet, belåtenhet, välbehag

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
满足, 安心

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 滿足, 安心

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 자득, 자기만족

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 自己満足

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) رضا ذاتي, أعجاب بالنفس‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮שאננות, שלווה‬

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