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Inferiority complex

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Noun
  1. 1
    A sense of inferiority; the feeling that one is inferior to others in certain aspects.
  2. 2
    a sense of personal inferiority arising from conflict between the desire to be noticed and the fear of being humiliated wordnet

Etymology

Calque of German Minderwertigkeitskomplex (literally “complex of lesser value”), coined in 1920 by Alfred Adler.

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