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com·pla·cen·cy
 complacency
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- pronunciation:
- k
 m
pleI
sn
si
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition: |
satisfaction with oneself or one's situation; smugness.
His complacency was unshaken by the warnings of threats to his position. |
| related words: |
pride |
adjective + (n.)complacency
educational, false, growing, judicial, moral
verb + (n.)complacency
accuse, avoid, blame, breed, challenge, counter, disrupt, disturb, foster, hate, lead, lull, resist, shake, shatter, warn
(n.)complacency
+ verb
imagine, result, reveal, risk, set, settle
noun + (n.)complacency
attempt, attitude, danger, leadership, lull, mood, satisfaction, sense, sign, smugness, success
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| derivation: |
complacence (n.) |
The word complacency
contains the following parts:
plac
Latin
root
that means calm; please
  Example words:
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence
and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, accountancy, admittance, agency, ambiance, ambience, appetency, arrogance, ascendancy, attendance, audience, belligerency, benevolence, brilliancy, buoyancy, cadence, clemency, complacency, conference, confidence, consequence, conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, countertendency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, difference, disappearance, discrepancy, disturbance, efficiency, eloquence, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, importance, incoherency, inconsistency, incumbency, indecency, independence, independency, inefficiency, infancy, insufficiency, insurgency, interagency, interdependency, itinerancy, latency, leniency, malfeasance, malignancy, mendicancy, nonbelligerency, nonemergency, occupancy, occurrence, patency, permanency, piquancy, poignancy, potency, preference, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, pungency, redundancy, regency, remembrance, residence, residency, science, solvency, stringency, subagency, sufficiency, superefficiency, superintendency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy
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