Excessive satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements; smug complacency.
a look of self-satisfaction
Example sentencesExamples
You are all permitted a moment of pride and self-satisfaction.
It was not intended as a path to complacency or self-satisfaction, but to questions and action.
Self-interest and self-satisfaction are replaced with self-reflection and significant improvement.
It is good to share with somebody, but the problem is that this desire often comes from self-satisfaction and ego-centered attachment which would never fill our heart.
Appalled by smugness and self-satisfaction, he simply could not bear to see an Irish institution go unchallenged.
Excessive satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements; smug complacency.
a look of self-satisfaction
Example sentencesExamples
It was not intended as a path to complacency or self-satisfaction, but to questions and action.
Self-interest and self-satisfaction are replaced with self-reflection and significant improvement.
You are all permitted a moment of pride and self-satisfaction.
Appalled by smugness and self-satisfaction, he simply could not bear to see an Irish institution go unchallenged.
It is good to share with somebody, but the problem is that this desire often comes from self-satisfaction and ego-centered attachment which would never fill our heart.