Synonyms for complacency
kəmˈpleɪ sən si; -sənscom·pla·cen·cy

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1. complacency

   Synonyms:
   approval, contentment, delight, gratification, pleasure, satisfaction

   Antonyms:
   displeasure, grudge, irritation, offense, pique, resentment, umbrage

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1. complacency, complacence, self-complacency, self-satisfactionnoun

   the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself

   "his complacency was absolutely disgusting"

   Synonyms:
   self-satisfaction, self-complacency, complacence

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1. complacencynoun

   Synonyms:
   satisfaction, gratification, pleasure, content, contentment

2. complacencynoun

   Synonyms:
   civility, courtesy, politeness, complaisance

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1. List of paraphrases for "complacency":

   self-satisfaction, self-congratulation, convenience, self-righteousness, complaisance, subservience, leniency, indulgence, overconfidence, sufficiency, indifference

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1. Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus:

   We are encouraged by this trend but this is no time for complacency.

2. Alan Tanjusay:

   There is a culture of complacency in government.

3. Joe BidenLarry Summers:

   I think policy is rather overdoing International Energy Agency, the sense of serenity and complacency being projected by the economic policymakers, that this is all something that can easily be managed, is misplaced.

4. The President:

   It's a false narrative to take comfort in a lower rate of death, there's so many other things that are very dangerous and bad about this virus. Don't get yourself into false complacency.

5. Art Hogan:

   This is how corrections start, i think what is really happening, this is a market that fell into a bit of complacency about the fact that this coronavirus was largely contained in China and China was doing a lot about it.