Meaning

1 senses
  1. Confidence in one's own righteousness, self-assurance, smugness.

    The book of Job warns us against self-righteousness, since no man can justify himself to God.

    Selbstgerechtigkeit

    самодово́льствоsamodovólʹstvo

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
confident in one's own righteousness, self-assured, smug:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: self-righteousnesses

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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