God complex

English

Noun

God complex (plural God complexes)

An unshakable belief characterized by consistently inflated feelings of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility.
- 2016, “Don't Hurt Yourself”, in Lemonade, performed by Beyoncé:
  Bad motherfucker, God complex / Motivate your ass, call me Malcolm X

Translations

inflated feelings of personal ability etc.

Chinese:
Mandarin: 上帝情結／上帝情结 (Shàngdì qíngjié)
Finnish: jumaluuskompleksi
Italian: complesso del Messia m, complesso di Cristo m, sindrome del salvatore m
Japanese: 神コンプレックス (kamikonpurekkusu), メサイアコンプレックス (mesaiakonpurekkusu)
Polish: Kompleks Boga
Portuguese: complexo de messias m

See also

References

McLemee.com The Shrink with a God Complex Ronald Hayman Newsday, (April 22, 2001).
News-Service.Stanford.edu Did Caligula have a God complex? Stanford, Oxford archaeologists find evidence that depraved tyrant annexed sacred temple', John Sanford (September 10, 2003).

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