Self-satisfaction synonyms

sĕlf'săt'ĭs-făk'shən

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complacency
The definition of complacency means a feeling of contentment or self-satisfaction, often combined with a lack of awareness of pending trouble or controversy.
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conceit
A fanciful or witty expression or notion; often, specif., a striking and elaborate metaphor, sometimes one regarded, esp. formerly, as strained and arbitrary
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self-doubt (antonym)
The doubting of one's own abilities.
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irreverence (related)
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humility (antonym)
The state or quality of being humble; absence of vanity or excessive pride
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contentment
The neurophysiological experience of satisfaction and being at ease in one's situation, body, and/or mind.
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meekness (antonym)
The quality of being meek
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complacence
Contented self-satisfaction.
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self-complacency
the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself
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smugness (related)
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self-importance (related)
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condescension (related)
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dejection (related)
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naivete (related)
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bafflement (related)
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malevolence (related)
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pride
A flamboyant or impressive group:
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egotism (related)
Conceit or vanity
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Self-satisfaction Sentence Examples

  • The blue-gray bandy legged dog ran merrily along the side of the road, sometimes in proof of its agility and self-satisfaction lifting one hind leg and hopping along on three, and then again going on all four and rushing to bark at the crows that sat on the carrion.

  • But be this as it may, he had no sooner adopted his new creed than he resolved to profess it; " a momentary glow of enthusiasm " had raised him above all temporal considerations, and accordingly, on June 8, 1753, he records that having " privately abjured the heresies" of his childhood before a Catholic priest of the name of Baker, a Jesuit, in London, he announced the same to his father in an elaborate controversial epistle which his spiritual adviser much approved, and which he himself afterwards described to Lord Sheffield as having been " written with all the pomp, the dignity, and self-satisfaction of a martyr."

  • The great orators of all times were a special object of study with him, and he describes his boyish pedantry pleasantly enough, but by no means without a touch of self-satisfaction in the memory.

  • From 1855 to 1860 he was pastor of a new Unitarian society in Jersey City, where he gave up the Lord's Supper, thinking that it ministered to self-satisfaction; and it was as a radical Unitarian that he became pastor of another young church in New York City in 1860.

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