God complex

English

Noun

God complex (plural God complexes)

1. 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

• Christ complex
• messiah complex
• savior complex
• hubris
• megalomania
• play God

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).