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self-righteousness en · NOUN

Etymology

From self-righteous + -ness or self- + righteousness.

Meanings

  1. Confidence in one's own righteousness, self-assurance, smugness.
    • The heroines of these plays speak out against intraracial biases, stereotyping, lynchmobs, illiteracy, poverty, promiscuity, self-righteousness, verbally abusive men, rape, and miscegenation. […] Without warning the doctor, she chokes the life out of her child in order to keep him safe from white lynchmobs. 1990, Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, “Preface”, in Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present, New York, N.Y.: Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, page xiv:
    • There was no tedious self-righteousness on the night of the gala event. The charity auction invited bids for a night out at the Windmill Club (a lapdancing venue in Soho) and a course of plastic surgery, offered as an opportunity to “Add spice to your wife” 2018 January 25, Amelia Gentleman, “Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power”, in The Guardian:
    • The book of Job warns us against self-righteousness, since no man can justify himself to God.

Translations (19)

es fariseísmo (confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug) · pl pyszałkowatość (confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug) · es mojigatería (confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug) · mk самоправедност (confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug) · bg самодоволство (confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug) · gl desdén (confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug) · pl przemądrzałość (confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug) · es mojigatez (confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug) · ru самодово́льство (confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug) · es santurronería (confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug) · pl zarozumiałość (confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug) · de Selbstgerechtigkeit (confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug) · nl eigengerechtigheid (confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug) · fi omahyväisyys (confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug) · sv egenrättfärdighet (confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug) · gl condescendencia (confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug) · nl zelfgenoegzaamheid (confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug) · sv självrättfärdighet (confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug) · fr dédain (confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug)