Unaware vs Complacency - What's the difference?
unaware | complacency |
not aware or informed; lacking knowledge
Not noticing; paying no heed; thoughtless; inattentive.
A feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble.
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* Addison
An instance of self-satisfaction.
As a adjective unaware
is not aware or informed; lacking knowledge.As a noun complacency is
a feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble.unaware
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Adjective
(-)- I'm unaware of the answer to that question.
- Luckily, she was unaware that I'd spent the last five years in prison.
- (Jonathan Swift)
Derived terms
* unawares adverbcomplacency
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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.
