Definitions for complacency

complacency com·pla·cen·cy

Spelling: [kuh m-pley-suh n-see]
IPA: /kəmˈpleɪ sən si/

Complacency is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 24 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 30 points.

You can make 544 anagrams from letters in complacency (acccelmnopy).

Definitions for complacency

noun

  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. friendly civility; inclination to please; complaisance. a civil act.

Origin of complacency

From the Medieval Latin word complacentia, dating back to 1635-45. See complacent, -cy

Examples for complacency

They went out of their way to tell me how such programs “breed” complacency, laziness, and—wait for it—dependency.

But judging by our complacency, you would be forgiven for not knowing this.

Mr. Burton Henderson accepted his wife's amendment with complacency.

Even as it was, I felt a slight degree of complacency at the circumstance.

"It's a shame," she said, with a marked effort to subdue her own complacency.

Calmer thoughts succeeded this little flicker of complacency.

He might well think with some complacency of the influence he had exerted on the world.

This is a film that takes apart your complacency as surely as this alien world destroys Thomas Newton.

A psychiatrist who attended one such conference blamed television for the complacency.

In one sentence, he asserts: “Panic is worse than complacency.”

Word Value for complacency
Scrable

24

Words with friends

30

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