'Smugness' definitions:
Definition of 'smugness'
(from WordNet)
noun
An excessive feeling of self-satisfaction
Definition of 'Smugness'
From: GCIDE
- Smugness \Smug"ness\, n. The quality or state of being smug. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'smugness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- amour-propre,
- autoeroticism,
- blandness,
- bovinity,
- butter,
- censoriousness,
- complacence,
- complacency,
- consequentiality,
- demureness,
- demurity,
- ego trip,
- fair words,
- false modesty,
- fulsomeness,
- glibness,
- hideboundness,
- honeyed words,
- incense,
- mauvaise honte,
- narcism,
- narcissism,
- narrowness,
- oiliness,
- overmodesty,
- overproudness,
- overweening pride,
- priggishness,
- primness,
- prudery,
- prudishness,
- puritanicalness,
- Quakerishness,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- self-admiration,
- self-approbation,
- self-complacency,
- self-congratulation,
- self-content,
- self-contentedness,
- self-delight,
- self-endearment,
- self-esteem,
- self-gratulation,
- self-importance,
- self-infatuation,
- self-love,
- self-respect,
- self-satisfaction,
- self-sufficiency,
- self-worship,
- smoothness,
- soft soap,
- soft words,
- stiff-neckedness,
- straitlacedness,
- stuffiness,
- suaveness,
- suavity,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- unctuousness,
- vaingloriousness,
- vainglory,
- vainness,
- vanity