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Comodismo

English translation: complacency

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Portuguese term or phrase:Comodismo
English translation:complacency
Entered by: Verginia Ophof

12:03 May 2, 2018
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Philosophy
Portuguese term or phrase: Comodismo
A doença narcísica igualitarista apenas esconde um comodismo evolutivo e uma soberba impeditiva de admitir níveis acima de si.
Anitsa
Brazil
Local time: 07:50
complacency
Explanation:
suggestion
Selected response from:

Verginia Ophof
Belize
Local time: 04:50
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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3self-indulgence
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
4 +1indolence/inertia
Nick Taylor
4 +1idleness
Matheus Chaud
3 +2complacency
Verginia Ophof


  

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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
self-indulgence


Explanation:
Sugg.

While many walk the line with grace and balance, there are also a significant number of narcissists who bathe in the celebrity spotlight in complete self-indulgence.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/tina-swithin/the-narcissism-e...

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 11:50
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Helena Grahn
3 mins
  -> Obrigada, Helena!
agree  Clauwolf
3 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Claudio!
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos: Hi Teresa, What would you do with "evolutivo"? 'growing'? 'increasing'?
5 hrs
  -> Thanks, Muriel! Maybe "growing self-indulgence"...
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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
indolence/inertia


Explanation:
indolence

Nick Taylor
Local time: 11:50
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Oliver Simões: "... unless we are prodded on a monumental scale by some highly disturbing and conscience-altering event, we the people of the Earth may never abandon our evolutionary indolence and near-sightedness and follow our manifest destiny in the cosmos!"
3 days 17 hrs
  -> Cool reference - thanks Oliveira
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41 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
comodismo
idleness


Explanation:

https://www.infopedia.pt/dicionarios/lingua-portuguesa/comod...
comodismo:
atitude de quem evita trabalhos, esforços ou dificuldades

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/idle
idleness:
If you say that someone is idle, you disapprove of them because they are not doing anything and you think they should be.

Matheus Chaud
Brazil
Local time: 07:50
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nick Taylor
9 hrs
  -> Thanks, Nick!
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
complacency


Explanation:
suggestion

Example sentence(s):
  • smug complacency

    https://publicautonomy.org/2015/03/09/self-righteousness-and-left-activism/
Verginia Ophof
Belize
Local time: 04:50
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nick Taylor
6 hrs
  -> Thank you Nick !!
agree  Marilia Sette Câmara
21 hrs
  -> Thank you Marilia !
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