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displacency

noun

  1. Lack of complacency or gratification; displeasure or dislike.

    countable, obsolete, uncountable

    A displacency at the good of others because they enjoy it, though not unworthy of it, is an absurd depravity, sticking fast unto corrupted nature, and often too hard for humility and charity, the great suppressors of envy.

Where it comes from

From Latin displacentia, for displicentia, from displicere (“to displease”), from dis- + placere (“to please”). See displease, and compare displeasance.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry displacency (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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