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The feeling of being better than others, usually loudest in people with the least proof.
means The state or attitude of being, or believing yourself to be, better, higher, or more excellent than others.
from From Latin superior, meaning 'higher' or 'upper' — itself the comparative form of superus, 'above,' rooted in super, 'over.' It traveled through medieval Latin and French before settling into English in the 1400s, originally describing rank or position (a superior court, a superior officer) before it curdled into the personality trait we now side-eye.
- complex cousin
- superiority complex often masks deep insecurity, say psychologists
- military term
- air superiority means controlling the sky, not the ego
- Darwin link
- misused to justify eugenics in the 19th-20th centuries
- grammar twist
- it is the noun form of the adjective superior, meaning higher