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SUPERIORITY COMPLEX
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Dictionary entry overview: What does superiority complex mean?
• SUPERIORITY COMPLEX (noun)
The noun SUPERIORITY COMPLEX has 1 sense:
1. an exaggerated estimate of your own value and importance
Familiarity information: SUPERIORITY COMPLEX used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An exaggerated estimate of your own value and importance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("superiority complex" is a kind of...):
egotism; self-importance; swelled head (an exaggerated opinion of your own importance)
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