Ignorance vs Complacency - What's the difference?
ignorance | complacency |
The condition of being uninformed or uneducated. Lack of knowledge or information.
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 ignorance and complacency
is that ignorance is the condition of being uninformed or uneducated. Lack of knowledge or information while complacency is a feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble.As a proper noun Ignorance
is a personification of ignorance.ignorance
Alternative forms
* ignoraunceNoun
Derived terms
* ignorant * willful ignorance * ignorance is blissSynonyms
* unawareness * blindnesscomplacency
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.