self-satisfaction

Questions about self-satisfaction

What is another word for self-satisfaction?

It depends which self-satisfaction you mean. In the sense “the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself”, the synonyms are complacency, complacence, self-complacency. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of self-satisfaction?

WordNet records no antonym for self-satisfaction. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for self-satisfaction come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of self-satisfaction

• Full entry for self-satisfactionAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for self-satisfactionWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.