complacência
Portuguese, noun/kõ.plaˈsẽ.sjɐ/
complacência is spelled C-O-M-P-L-A-C-Ê-N-C-I-A (12 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 52,034th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Complacência is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “complaisance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “desejo ou ato de comprazer”.
What does complacência mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecomplaisance
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. desejo ou ato de comprazer
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of complacência
- complacências plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce complacência?
- Brazil /kõ.plaˈsẽ.sjɐ/
- Portugal /kõ.plɐˈsẽ.sjɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to complacência
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is complacência in Portuguese?
complacência appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).