complacency

noun
🔊/kəmˈpleɪsnsi/
🔊/kəmˈpleɪsnsi/
[uncountable] (usually disapproving)
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  1. a feeling of being satisfied with yourself or with a situation, so that you do not think any change is necessary; the state of being complacent自满;自得;自鸣得意
    • Despite signs of an improvement in the economy, there is no room for complacency.尽管在经济方面有改善的迹象,但仍不容自满。🔊🔊
    • His early success as a writer led to complacency and arrogance.他早期作为作家的成就引起了自满和自大。
    Word Originmid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin complacentia, from Latin complacere ‘to please’.