The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-complacency
Self-complacency \Self`-com*pla"cen*cy\, n.
The quality of being self-complacent.
--J. Foster.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
self-complacency
1680s, from self- + complacency.
WordNet
self-complacency
n. the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself; "his complacency was absolutely disgusting" [syn: complacency, complacence, self-satisfaction]
Usage examples of "self-complacency".
More knowledge, however, of the history of surgery has given a serious set-back to this self-complacency, and now we know that the later medieval surgeons understood practical antisepsis very well, and applied it successfully.
Great artists who have taken liberties with traditions and precedents have done much to prevent the critics from falling into a state of self-complacency over their scientific methods and formulas.