Complacency vs Carelessness - What's the difference?
complacency | carelessness |
A feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble.
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* Addison
An instance of self-satisfaction.
Lack of care.
As nouns the difference between complacency and carelessness
is that complacency is a feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble while carelessness is lack of care.complacency
English
Alternative forms
* complacenceNoun
(complacencies)- There was something pathetic in his concentration as if his complacency , more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more. When, almost immediately, the telephone rang inside and the butler left the porch Daisy seized upon the momentary interruption and leaned toward me.
- Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency , if they discover none of the like in themselves.
carelessness
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Noun
- This accident was caused by carelessness .
