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inferiority complex
- Psychol. a neurotic condition resulting from various feelings of inferiority, such as derive from real or imagined physical or social inadequacy, and often manifested through overcompensation in excessive aggressiveness, a domineering attitude, etc.
- popularly any feeling of inferiority, inadequacy, etc.
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