INFERIORITY COMPLEX


Meaning of INFERIORITY COMPLEX in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1922

1. : an acute sense of personal inferiority often resulting either in timidity or through overcompensation in exaggerated aggressiveness

2. : a collective sense of cultural, regional, or national inferiority

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.