Synonyms:
complacency, complacence, self-complacency, self-satisfaction
Meaning: the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself; "his complacency was absolutely disgusting"
Usage examples
If we remain silent, we appear to be inhaling the incense with complacency; if we repel it, we only seem to excite it the more.
'Slow, you may be; sure, you are!' This he twice or thrice repeated with much complacency, as he again dispersed the legs of the Turkish trousers and bent the knees.
His symptoms, however, soon returned with their usual violence; and from that moment he gave up all thoughts of recovery, but submitted with the utmost cheerfulness, and the most perfect complacency and resignation.
This is no portrait of a writer who had to burn the oil at midnight (indeed there is documentary evidence that she was hauled off to bed every evening at six): it has an air of careless power; there is a complacency about it that by the severe might perhaps be called smugness.