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Visionary vs Complacency - What's the difference?

visionary | complacency |

As nouns the difference between visionary and complacency

is that visionary is someone who has visions; a seer while complacency is a feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble.

As an adjective visionary

is having vision or foresight.

visionary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having vision or foresight
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Or lull to rest the visionary maid.
  • imaginary or illusory
  • prophetic or revelatory
  • * Thomson
    • The visionary hour / When musing midnight reigns.
  • idealistic or utopian
    • a visionary scheme or project
    (Jonathan Swift)

    Noun

    (visionaries)
  • someone who has visions; a seer
  • an impractical dreamer
  • someone who has positive ideas about the future

    • complacency

    English

    Alternative forms

    * complacence

    Noun

    (complacencies)
  • A feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble.
  • *
    • 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.
  • * Addison
    • Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency , if they discover none of the like in themselves.
  • An instance of self-satisfaction.

    • Related terms

    * complacent