self-complacency

noun

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  1. complacency
  2. egoism
  3. self-satisfaction
  4. egotism
  5. vainglory
  6. vanity
  7. hubris
  8. complacence
Noun
  • And yet, eight years after the idea popped into his head, at last his bold opus has come to the big screen, ready to jolt audiences out of their complacency.
    Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Chronic complacency has long been a challenge for South Korea.
    William Pesek, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of complacency
Noun
  • Psychological egoism is at play here, too, with Jimmy’s extreme emotional investment in getting Grace help.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information, Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Aug. 2024
Definition of egoism
Noun
  • Megalopolis posits a world of clueless liberal self-satisfaction, missing every point of contemporary alertness to ongoing lawfare and sedition.
    Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Nothing was off-limits in Mad, a newsstand stalwart that would reach peak annual sales in the 1970s of 2.5 million issues by delivering belly laughs and self-satisfaction to America’s class clowns through cartoons, parodies, sarcastic characters and an unending stream of gross-out gags.
    Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
Definition of self-satisfaction
Noun
  • Gratitude is the opposite of selfishness, egotism, avarice or narcissism.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
  • But by trying to avoid how Trump’s past reflects his current approach to politics—his zero-sum relationship to power, his pettiness and egotism—while simultaneously winking at viewers’ knowledge of him, the film lands itself in a trap.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of egotism
Noun
  • The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.
    Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • That’s the mantra for wide receivers, a group long known for their vainglory.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
Definition of vainglory
Noun
  • The bathroom itself looks a lot like its counterpart and has a shower, a small vanity sink, and a flushing toilet, as well as some more storage.
    Adam Williams, New Atlas, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Here, garland drapes over each medicine cabinet and fills a small bowl on the vanity top, adding punches of color and festivity without being too literal.
    Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of vanity
Noun
  • All three films have this in common: Over-the-top musicians are tragically brought down by their own hubris and turn monstrous.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
  • This put a bright spotlight on the hypocrisy and hubris that have often characterized the aspects of American foreign policy that exist outside the rules, which fuel the narratives of autocrats and populists alike.
    Ben Rhodes, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of hubris
Noun
  • But surely there must be a place for civil disobedience and protest that is sufficiently disruptive to rouse people from complacence.
    Yochai Benkler, Foreign Affairs, 4 Apr. 2012
  • The campaign used Ivancie’s complacence.
    oregonlive, oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2022
Definition of complacence
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