self-complacency

noun

self-complacency

noun

Etymology From self- + complacency.

1

The quality of being self-complacent.

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

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