inferiority complex

1. 1.

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

   Broadercomplex

Questions about inferiority complex

What does inferiority complex mean?

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

Is inferiority complex a common word?

inferiority complex is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.