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Self-complacency

Definition: Self-complacency

Self-complacency

Noun

1. The feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself; "his complacency was absolutely disgusting".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "self-complacency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Self-complacency

Synonyms: complacence (n), complacency (n), self-satisfaction (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Self-complacency

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Vanity

Noun: vanity; conceit, conceitedness; self-conceit, self-complacency, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-esteem, self-love, self-approbation, self-praise, self-glorification, self-laudation, self-gratulation, self-applause, self-admiration; amour propre; selfishness.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage Frequency: Self-complacency

"Self-complacency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Self-complacency" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Self-complacency

Language Translations for "self-complacency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

netëkënaqje. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

самодоволство (complacence, complacency, priggery, self satisfaction, wind). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

自已自满. (various references)

   

Czech

  

samolibost (complacence, ego, self esteem, self satisfaction). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ναρκισσισμόσ (narcissism). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

önelégültség (complacence, complacency, self-content, self-righteousness, self-sufficiency, smugness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elf-complacencysay

   

Portuguese

  

ufania de si mesmo, fatuidade (puppyism, vanity). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

autoamãgire (self-delusion). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

самодовольство (complacence, complacency, coxcombry, self-satisfaction, smugness). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

uživanje u samom sebi. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

halinden memnunluk. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính tự túc tự mãn. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Self-complacency

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-c-e-e-f-l-l-m-n-o-p-s-y"

-3 letters: complacences.

-4 letters: complacence, complacency.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Self-complacency


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 6C 66 2D 63 6F 6D 70 6C 61 63 65 6E 63 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00101101 01100011 01101111 01101101 01110000 01101100 01100001 01100011 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#108 &#102 &#45 &#99 &#111 &#109 &#112 &#108 &#97 &#99 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006C 0066 002D 0063 006F 006D 0070 006C 0061 0063 0065 006E 0063 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53717872156981798278676971806991

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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