complacence

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
21
Words With Friends
28
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/kəmˈpleɪsəns/

Definition of complacence

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Being complacent; a feeling of contentment or satisfaction; complacency.
    “[T]he inward Complacence we find in acting reaſonably and vertuouſly, and the Diſquiet we feel from vicious Choices and Purſuits, is protracted beyond the Acts themſelves from whence it aroſe, and renewed often upon our Souls, by diſtant Reflections; […]”
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noun

  1. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Being complacent; a feeling of contentment or satisfaction; complacency.
    “[T]he inward Complacence we find in acting reaſonably and vertuouſly, and the Diſquiet we feel from vicious Choices and Purſuits, is protracted beyond the Acts themſelves from whence it aroſe, and renewed often upon our Souls, by diſtant Reflections; […]”
  2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Delight, pleasure.
    “O thou, my sole complacence.”
  3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Complaisance; a willingness to comply with others' wishes.
    “He told his sister, if she pleased, the new-born infant should be bred up together with little Tommy; to which she consented, though with some little reluctance: for she had truly a great complacence for her brother […]”

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Etymology

From late Middle English complacence, from Medieval Latin complacentia, from Latin complaceō (“to please”).

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