Associations to the word «Smugness»

Wiktionary

SMUGNESS, noun. (uncountable) The state or quality of being smug.
SMUGNESS, noun. (countable) The result or product of being smug.

Dictionary definition

SMUGNESS, noun. An excessive feeling of self-satisfaction.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope