Usually means: Satisfaction with current situation; unambitious.
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  1. complacency: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. complacency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. complacency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. complacency: Collins English Dictionary
  5. complacency: Vocabulary.com
  6. Complacency, complacency: Wordnik
  7. complacency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. complacency: Wiktionary
  9. complacency: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. complacency: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. complacency: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. complacency: Dictionary.com
  13. complacency: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Complacency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. complacency: Rhymezone
  16. Complacency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. complacency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. complacency: Free Dictionary
  19. complacency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. complacency: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. complacency: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. complacency: Legal dictionary

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  1. complacency: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  A feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble.
▸ noun:  An instance of self-satisfaction.
▸ noun:  Passivity as a result of contentment with the current situation.

Similar:
complacence, self-complacency, self-satisfaction, contentment, contentation, comfort, comfortability, pleasure cruise, content, self-righteousness, more...

Opposite:
vigilance, alertness, attentiveness

Types:
apathy, lethargy, sloth, torpor, more...

Phrases:
self complacency, opposite of complacency, more...

Adjectives:
much, great, self, such, certain, smug, moral, perfect, apparent, peculiar, national

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     gray,     light brown,     cream,     lavender,     pastel orange,     sand,     olive,     mauve



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Similar:
complacence, self-complacency, self-satisfaction, contentment, contentation, comfort, comfortability, pleasure cruise, content, self-righteousness, more...

Opposite:
vigilance, alertness, attentiveness

Types:
apathy, lethargy, sloth, torpor, more...

Phrases:
self complacency, opposite of complacency, more...

Adjectives:
much, great, self, such, certain, smug, moral, perfect, apparent, peculiar, national

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     gray,     light brown,     cream,     lavender,     pastel orange,     sand,     olive,     mauve



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