complacencia

complacency

noun kom-plah-SEN-syah Rare

Also means

satisfaction

Usage Note

Complacencia can be positive (a quiet, earned satisfaction) or negative (smug self-satisfaction, complacency in the English sense of dangerous contentment): caer en la complacencia (to fall into complacency). Context determines the nuance. The adjective is complaciente ('complacent' or 'obliging'), and the verb is complacer (to please, to indulge).

Examples

"La complacencia puede ser el peor enemigo del progreso."

Natural Translation

Complacency can be the worst enemy of progress.

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