SELF-SATISFACTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-satisfaction mean? 

• SELF-SATISFACTION (noun)
  The noun SELF-SATISFACTION has 1 sense:

1. the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself

  Familiarity information: SELF-SATISFACTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-SATISFACTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

complacence; complacency; self-complacency; self-satisfaction

Context example:

his complacency was absolutely disgusting

Hypernyms ("self-satisfaction" is a kind of...):

satisfaction (the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "self-satisfaction"):

smugness (an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction)

 Context examples 

With a triumphant smile of self-satisfaction, the general wished he could do the same, for he never entered his, without being vexed in some way or other, by its falling short of his plan.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Now all was blasted; instead of that serenity of conscience which allowed me to look back upon the past with self-satisfaction, and from thence to gather promise of new hopes, I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures such as no language can describe.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

That little glow of self-satisfaction, that added measure of self-confidence, were to lead me on that very night to the most dreadful experience of my life, ending with a shock which turns my heart sick when I think of it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)