complacency
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7.2
- noun
- /kəmˈpleɪsənsi/
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autocomplacencia
- The team celebrated their victory, but the coach reminded them that complacency could cost them future wins.
- sense of complacency
- complacency and denial
- lead to complacency
You perk up, you sit like this, complacency looks like this.
- You perk up, you sit like this, complacency looks like this.
- Don't get proud, don't get complacent because complacency will stop your growth.
- Success often leads to complacency, right?
- And I do feel that I have some complacency.
- So complacency is the death of where you're at right now.
- It just feels like there's an underlying acceptance and complacency, even despite all those protests.
- Break out of that sense of absurd complacency.
- And it's that mindset of comfort, convenience, and complacency that gives voice to the inner critic.
- How do I celebrate my win but not get cup caught up in the complacency trap?
- It's this difference between the pressure that we place on ourselves versus complacency.
- They were on fire, they were doing great things and they settled down into complacency.
- They're what we call a proper company, but they also suffer from arrogance and complacency.
- Find where others meet complacency or sunk cost thinking, which I've said to you so many times.
- My biggest fear is that is sort of bottoming out at that plateau of comfortable complacency, if you will.
Examples
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Success often leads to complacency, right?
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In addition, success can cause complacency and excessive caution in coping with new challenges.
Academic text (1999) -
And also, I would say complacency on the part of the target.
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- It's no time for complacency.
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For courage, not complacency, is our need today.
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We believed we were breaking free of the denial and complacency around us.
Academic text (1998) -
Complacency is a killer out here.
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A direct result of our own complacency, our indifference.
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Deputy Speaker, there is no room for complacency and you will not find any on these benches.
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You know, and what what's great about Nike, and certainly the Nike I grew up with is complacency was the enemy of creativity.
Synonyms
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4.4
A feeling of being too sure of yourself when you are wrong
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5.7
Being too pleased with yourself in a way that annoys others
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4.8
A feeling of being proud of yourself that stops you seeing your faults
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7.9
A quiet feeling of being too satisfied and not noticing problems or danger
A feeling of being too satisfied with yourself and not noticing problems
Antonyms
Compounds
How Self-Satisfied
Surface Forms
Morphology
complacency = complacent (transparent) = complacent + cy
The noun is a standard state/quality formation from the adjective 'complacent' using the productive suffix '-cy'.
Etymology
Complacency comes from Latin parts com- and placere, which meant 'to please greatly', and it shares the same root as English words like please and pleasant. So complacency is being too 'pleased' with yourself—satisfied in a way that can make you ignore problems.