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English
Etymology
Calque of German Minderwertigkeitskomplex (literally “complex of lesser value”), coined in 1920 by Alfred Adler.
Pronunciation
Noun
inferiority complex (plural inferiority complexes)
- (psychology) A sense of inferiority; the feeling that one is inferior to others in certain aspects.
Antonyms
Translations
a sense of inferiority
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: natamamlıq kompleksi
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 自卑感 (zh) (zìbēigǎn), 自卑情結／自卑情结 (zh) (zìbēi qíngjié), 劣等感 (zh) (lièděnggǎn), 妄自菲薄 (zh) (wàngzìfěibó)
- Czech: komplex méněcennosti (cs) m, (colloquial) mindrák (cs) m
- Dutch: minderwaardigheidscomplex (nl)
- Esperanto: minuskomplekso
- Finnish: alemmuuskompleksi (fi)
- French: complexe d’infériorité m, sentiment d’infériorité m
- Galician: complexo de inferioridade (gl) m
- Georgian: არასრულფასოვნების კომპლექსი (arasrulpasovnebis ḳomṗleksi)
- German: Minderwertigkeitskomplex (de) m
- Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: kisebbrendűségi komplexus
- Irish: coimpléasc ísleachta m
- Italian: complesso d'inferiorità m
- Japanese: 劣等感 (ja) (れっとうかん, rettōkan)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 콤플렉스 (ko) (kompeullekseu), 열등감(劣等感) (ko) (yeoldeunggam), 열등감 콤플렉스 (yeoldeunggam kompeullekseu)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: kompleks niższości m
- Portuguese: complexo de inferioridade m
- Romanian: complex de inferioritate (ro) n, sentiment de inferioritate n
- Russian: ко́мплекс неполноце́нности (ru) m (kómpleks nepolnocénnosti)
- Spanish: complejo de inferioridad m
- Swedish: mindervärdeskomplex (sv) n
- Tagalog: panganganino, pamamalahibo
- Thai: ปมด้อย (th) (bpom-dɔ̂i)
- Turkish: aşağılık kompleksi (tr)
- Ukrainian: ко́мплекс меншова́ртості m (kómpleks menšovártosti), ко́мплекс неповноці́нності m (kómpleks nepovnocínnosti)
- Vietnamese: mặc cảm tự ti (－感自卑), tự ti mặc cảm (自卑－感), phức cảm tự ti (复感自卑)
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