#complacency
- Self-complacency — A state of exaggerated, often unfounded or smug satisfaction with one's own qualities, deeds, achievements, or life circumstances; passive complacency in one's current state, accompanied by a lack of critical spirit and desire for self-improvement. In behavioral psychology and ethical analysis, the term describes a trap of the ego (self-sufficiency) that blocks intellectual or spiritual evolution through systematic rejection of constructive external evaluations.
- Self-satisfaction — A feeling of contentment, pride, or delight regarding one's own achievements, qualities, actions, or behaviors. In a positive sense, it represents a healthy internal validation of efforts made, while in a pejorative or critical sense, it suggests a state of complacency, self-sufficiency, or vanity that can block personal growth and objective self-analysis.
- Self-sufficiency — The capacity of an individual, community, state, or system to ensure total independence by satisfying material and functional needs through own resources. In psychology, the term often defines an exaggerated state of self-satisfaction, spiritual complacency, or infatuation that blocks openness to the environment and the desire for self-improvement.