English Dictionary

complacency

IPA（発音記号）

/kəmˈpleɪsənˌsiː/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

A feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble. / Passivity as a result of contentment with the current situation.

日本語の意味

自己満足（自分の状態に対する満足感から、潜在的な問題に気付かなくなる状態） / 慢心（不必要に自信を持つことによって生じる、安心感） / 無防備（現状に満足しているために、潜在的な危険に対して無警戒になる状態）

Years of steady profits bred a dangerous complacency among the company's executives.

数年にわたる安定した利益は、会社の幹部たちに危険な自己満足を生んだ。

意味（1）

A feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble.

Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like in themselves. #* 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 5, in Vanity Fair, London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108: […] looking at Mr. George Osborne's pale interesting countenance, and those beautiful black, curling, shining whiskers, which the young gentleman himself regarded with no ordinary complacency, she thought in her little heart that in His Majesty's army, or in the wide world, there never was such a face or such a hero. 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter I, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 884653065; republished New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953, →ISBN: There was something pathetic in his concentration as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more. When, almost immediately, the telephone rang inside and the butler left the porch Daisy seized upon the momentary interruption and leaned toward me. An instance of self-satisfaction.

意味（2）

Passivity as a result of contentment with the current situation.

complacencies （ plural ）