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self-content

noun

Definition of self-contentnext
as in self-complacency

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  1. self-contentment
  2. egoism
  3. self-satisfaction
  4. complacency
  5. self-conceit
  6. self-admiration
  7. smugness
  8. vanity
Noun
  • Perhaps the ultimate answer to self-contentment is have less, not more.
    — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 19 May 2026
Definition of self-contentment
Noun
  • Kikuko sometimes mistook Shigejiro’s cheerfulness for egoism owing to the distortions produced by her illness.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • There was too much egoism politically for each country to be all together with a unique economy, language and president.
    — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2026
Definition of egoism
Noun
  • His face is a mix of affectlessness and self-satisfaction, putting him somewhere between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, with a touch of the Cheshire cat.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
  • After 50 minutes of self-satisfaction, the hero fades serenely into a sunset that Dudamel made miraculously mystical.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
Definition of self-satisfaction
Noun
  • But there comes a point where comfort can quietly become complacency.
    — Bill Holodnak, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The company prides itself on a 97 percent score on France’s Equal Opportunity Index, which calculates the gender pay gap, but Nicolas cautioned against complacency.
    — WWD Staff, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of complacency
Noun
  • The original 1877 building has grown not just to house the museum’s burgeoning collections and encompass its expanding role as an educator, entertainer and research institution, but to project an evolving sense of science’s self-conceit.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
Definition of self-conceit
Noun
  • Most of the film plays out in something close to real time, and the directors, loath to hurry scenes along, slow the action down with a technical virtuosity that sometimes tilts into self-admiration.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025
  • At first, Oliver meekly and gratefully laps up, metaphorically, the warm milk of affection that the family bestows on him between their rounds of backbiting and oblivious self-admiration.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2023
Definition of self-admiration
Noun
  • That joke, which McNamara hits with a palpable sparkle of smugness, illustrates how deliciously blunt her comedic sensibility is.
    — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Even if the movie gets a bit crazy in an apocalyptic epilogue, its picture of bourgeois smugness due for a takedown is delicious.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of smugness
Noun
  • Two of the usual product tills were transformed into makeshift vanities for about a dozen beauty lovers to test an assortment of serums and creams.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2026
  • This is small and simple, with a walk-in shower, a vanity sink, and a flushing toilet.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of vanity
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“Self-content.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-content. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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