self-complaisancen.
/ˌsɛlfkəmˈpleɪzns/, /ˌsɛlfˈkɒmpleɪzns/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfkəmˈpleɪsəns/, /ˌsɛlfkəmˈpleɪzns/ Uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements; self-satisfaction; complacency. Cf. self-complacence n.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > self-satisfaction > [noun]
complacencec1430
self-contentment1592
self-complacence1601
self-content1602
self-satisfaction1605
self-pleasing1610
self-complacency1616
self-contentedness1642
complacency1650
self-complaisance1675
Podsnappery1864
smugness1883
the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > complacency > [noun]
complacencec1430
self-contentment1592
self-complacence1601
self-content1602
self-satisfaction1605
self-pleasing1610
self-complacency1616
self-contentedness1642
complacency1650
self-complaisance1675
plume1910
1675 G. R. tr. A. Le Grand Man without Passion 67 All those Sects that are daily brooded, are but sprouts of that self complaisance [Fr. complaisance].
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xiii. 73 The self-complaisance which an imagin'd happy thought can be supposed to give the speaker.
1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. W. von Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Trav. in German Romance IV. 73 Self-complaisance over the concealed destroys its concealment.
1866 E. L. Price Let. 13 July in Jrnls. (1956) 188 She has..such perfect self-possession & self-complaisence.
1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xxxii. 524 Mr. Quarles..magnified with even more than his ordinary self-complaisance the talents which providence had prevented him from using.
1976 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 77 105 Attitudes like remorse, self-complaisance and pride become not just irrational but impossible.
2011 P. Fenves Messianic Reduction vii. 205 Under what conditions can a distinction be made between the phenomenon of self-contentment and that of self-complaisance.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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