self-complacency
English
Etymology
From self- + complacency.
Noun
self-complacency (uncountable)
- The quality of being self-complacent.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 128:
- No self-complacency can equal that of the selfish. Not content with its indulgence, they actually idolise it into being praiseworthy.