English Dictionary

complacence

IPA（発音記号）

/kəmˈpleɪsəns/

名詞

古語 可算名詞 不可算名詞 廃用

(archaic) Being complacent; a feeling of contentment or satisfaction; complacency. / (obsolete) Delight, pleasure. / (obsolete) Complaisance; a willingness to comply with others' wishes.

日本語の意味

自己満足、満足感（自分自身に安心して、現状に満足している状態） / 喜び、快楽（喜びに感じる感情。古い用法） / 従順、他者の望みに応じる態度（古い用法で、気前の良さともいったニュアンス）

Despite the clear signs of danger, his complacence kept him motionless.

明らかな危険の兆候があっても、彼の自己満足さのために彼は動けなかった。

意味（1）

(archaic) 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; […]

意味（2）

(obsolete) Delight, pleasure.

O thou, my sole complacence.

意味（3）

(obsolete) 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 […]

complacences （ plural ）