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• n  the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself

• McCain's bleatings are either for domestic political consumption or self-satisfaction, a form of hip-shooting onanism that demonstrates why he would have been a foreign policy .
• Faria creates nothing more than a pot mood: airless self-satisfaction.
• But the British should keep their nostalgia and self-satisfaction surrounding the colonial period within strict limits.

• complacency
• complacence
• self-complacency

News & Articles

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• California budget negotiations a breeze for Jerry Brown
  California lawmakers have adopted on-time budgets so rarely in recent decades that the one they negotiated with Gov. Jerry Brown this week filled the Capitol with an air of self-satisfaction -- if not disbelief.
  June 15, 2013 - The Sacramento Bee

Quotes

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• John Wooden in Wisconsin Law Journal
  Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable,Wooden once said in explaining such performance.
• Phan Van Khai in Sydney Morning Herald
  But, Khai added, the Vietnamese face many challenges and must "avoid self-satisfaction, and realise the weaknesses and challenges posed to us."