complacency

1. 1.

   the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself

   “his complacency was absolutely disgusting”

   Synonymscomplacenceself-complacencyself-satisfaction

   Broadersatisfaction

   Narrowersmugness

Other forms of complacency

plural

complacencies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about complacency

What does complacency mean?

complacency means "the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself".

How many syllables are in complacency?

complacency has 4 syllables: com-pla-cen-cy. The stress falls on "pla". In IPA it is /kəmˈpleɪsənsi/.

What is another word for complacency?

Close synonyms include complacence, self-complacency, self-satisfaction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is complacency a common word?

complacency is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.