Compliance vs Complacency - What's the difference?
compliance | complacency |
An act of complying.
(uncountable) The state of being compliant.
(uncountable) The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.
A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility
(medicine) The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan
(uncountable, business) the department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with
A feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble.
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* Addison
An instance of self-satisfaction.
As nouns the difference between compliance and complacency
is that compliance is an act of complying while complacency is a feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble.compliance
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*(act of complying) violationcomplacency
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* 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.
