Excitement vs Complacency - What's the difference?
excitement | complacency |
(uncountable) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
* E.A. Poe, '' The unparalelled adventure of one Hans Pfaal':
(countable) something that excites.
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 excitement and complacency
is that excitement is (uncountable) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused) while complacency is a feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble.excitement
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Noun
- By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement .
complacency
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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.