Smugness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Smugness \Smug"ness\, n.
     The quality or state of being smug.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  smugness
       n : an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "smugness":
     Quakerishness, amour-propre, autoeroticism, blandness, bovinity,
     butter, censoriousness, complacence, complacency, consequentiality,
     demureness, demurity, ego trip, fair words, false modesty,
     fulsomeness, glibness, hideboundness, honeyed words, incense,
     mauvaise honte, narcism, narcissism, narrowness, oiliness,
     overmodesty, overproudness, overweening pride, priggishness,
     primness, prudery, prudishness, puritanicalness, sanctimoniousness,
     sanctimony, self-admiration, self-approbation, self-complacency,
     self-congratulation, self-content, self-contentedness,
     self-delight, self-endearment, self-esteem, self-gratulation,
     self-importance, self-infatuation, self-love, self-respect,
     self-satisfaction, self-sufficiency, self-worship, smoothness,
     soft soap, soft words, stiff-neckedness, straitlacedness,
     stuffiness, suaveness, suavity, sweet talk, sweet words,
     unctuousness, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vainness, vanity