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Definition of Superiority complex
1. Noun. An exaggerated estimate of your own value and importance.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superiority Complex
Literary usage of Superiority complex
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"The knowledge that the great ones of the earth were quailing before the shafts
of his wit filled him with an almost excessive "superiority complex," and ..."
2. Principles of social psychology as developed in a study of economic and by James Mickel Williams (1922)
"The inferiority complex, because it, rather than the superiority complex,
characterizes the vast majority of people in whom the rivalrous disposition is ..."
3. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1907)
"IN ROME The Romans had less national pride and superiority complex than the Greeks
both in regard to religion and to state matters. ..."
4. General Kenney Reports: A Personal History of the Pacific War by George C. Kenney (1997)
"The same story was repeated in some localities around Nad- zab and up the Markham
Valley, but for some unknown reason our superiority complex just wouldn't ..."
5. The Chinese at the Negotiating Table: Style & Characteristics by Alfred D. Wilhelm (1994)
"Arthur Lall stressed the Communist's "hard to understand emphasis on contradictions"
and China's traditional, "though unjustified," superiority complex. ..."
6. The Chinese at the Negotiating Table: Style & Characteristics by Alfred D. Wilhelm (1994)
"Arthur Lall stressed the Communist's "hard to understand emphasis on contradictions"
and China's traditional, "though unjustified," superiority complex. ..."
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