smugnessn.

/ˈsmʌɡnɪs/

Etymology: < smug adj.

The condition or quality of being smug.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [noun] > neatness or trimness

dapperness1530

featishness1530

trimness1552

neatness1555

featness1576

pickedness1578

spruceness1594

comptness1611

deftness1612

smugness1632

jemminess1756

spick and span1758

smartness1768

sprucery1813

dapperism1830

nattiness1846

sleekness1866

spit and polish1895

spick-and-spanness1911

the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > conscious respectability

self-righteousness1574

smugness1883

respectability1907

smuggery1928

the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > self-satisfaction > [noun]

complacencec1430

self-contentment1592

self-complacence1601

self-content1602

self-satisfaction1605

self-pleasing1610

self-complacency1616

self-contentedness1642

complacency1650

self-complaisance1675

Podsnappery1864

smugness1883

1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) Smugnesse, netteté.

1677 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer ii. 19 She looks like an old Coach new painted; affecting an unseemly Smugness.

1755 H. Walpole Corr. (1903) III. 341 I like the smugness of the cathedral, and the profusion of the most beautiful Gothic tombs.

1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 78 No smugness..ever crossed the fancy of Schidone.

1836 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 3 491 It has been..smoothened, and tamed down to smugness, by cultivation, enclosing, and planting.

1883 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 602 There is probably no smugness in the world comparable to the complacent smugness of our insular ignorance.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	smugness
释义	smugnessn. /ˈsmʌɡnɪs/ Etymology: < smug adj. The condition or quality of being smug. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [noun] > neatness or trimness dapperness1530 featishness1530 trimness1552 neatness1555 featness1576 pickedness1578 spruceness1594 comptness1611 deftness1612 smugness1632 jemminess1756 spick and span1758 smartness1768 sprucery1813 dapperism1830 nattiness1846 sleekness1866 spit and polish1895 spick-and-spanness1911 the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > conscious respectability self-righteousness1574 smugness1883 respectability1907 smuggery1928 the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > self-satisfaction > [noun] complacencec1430 self-contentment1592 self-complacence1601 self-content1602 self-satisfaction1605 self-pleasing1610 self-complacency1616 self-contentedness1642 complacency1650 self-complaisance1675 Podsnappery1864 smugness1883 1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) Smugnesse, netteté. 1677 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer ii. 19 She looks like an old Coach new painted; affecting an unseemly Smugness. 1755 H. Walpole Corr. (1903) III. 341 I like the smugness of the cathedral, and the profusion of the most beautiful Gothic tombs. 1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 78 No smugness..ever crossed the fancy of Schidone. 1836 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 3 491 It has been..smoothened, and tamed down to smugness, by cultivation, enclosing, and planting. 1883 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 602 There is probably no smugness in the world comparable to the complacent smugness of our insular ignorance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1632
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