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inferiority complex

Noun

Meaning

a sense of personal inferiority arising from conflict between the desire to be noticed and the fear of being humiliated

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I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time. Barry Gibb

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. Alan Kay

Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex. Ellen DeGeneres

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack. Maya Angelou

Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee. J.R. Ward

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else. John B. Keane

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