COMPLACENCY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of complacency in English

(Definition of complacency from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of complacency from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of complacency

complacency
Perhaps the most provocative thing to say is that there is a danger of complacency among some young writers.
Perhaps understanding will replace complacency and indifference with prevention and treatment strategies and ultimately reduce the socio-economic burden of this condition.
However, by increasing income, these programs may also increase complacency among producers and reduce their incentive to try alternative approaches to agriculture.
Limiting ourselves to a single cultural perspective leaves us vulnerable not only to complacency but - what is worse - to collective delusions.
But if such complacency cannot be countenanced, that returns us to our original problem.
Inspectors sent to provinces were supposed to report on complacency and corruption of local party officials and propose measures for eliminating specified inadequacies.
Thus, the play can be linked directly with the then-current economic euphoria combined with political amnesia and complacency.
These two books are helpful both in challenging our complacency and in pointing the way towards creativity and innovation.
Everything is here: surprise, dismay, complacency, botched-up appearances, introversion, ego split, and unhealthy spirituality.
However, complacency with existing models rarely serves the scientific mind, and it will be interesting to see what future work reveals.
Instead of complacency, the main point of interest became the conflict between opponent theories involving different disciplines and their consequently different concepts.
Uncertainty and doubt concerning the future of mathematics have replaced the certainties and complacency of the past.
Neo-orthodoxy mocked its complacency, liberation theology its timidity.
This carefully researched and gracefully written book has the authority of an inhouse history with none of its complacency.
Throughout his career he detested the suffocating complacency so often found in faculty culture.
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Translations of complacency

in Chinese (Traditional)
自滿,自鳴得意…
in Chinese (Simplified)
自满,自鸣得意…
in Spanish
autocomplacencia…
in Portuguese
complacência…
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