non-complacency









non-complacency


noun, plural com·pla·cen·cies.

  1. a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc.
  2. Archaic.
    1. friendly civility; inclination to please; complaisance.
    2. a civil act.

noun plural -cencies or -cences

  1. a feeling of satisfaction, esp extreme self-satisfaction; smugness
  2. an obsolete word for complaisance

n.1640s, from same source as complacence but with the later form of the suffix (see -cy).

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