Messiah complex
Psychology
noun
A delusional mental condition in which a person believes that he or she is the true Messiah; (more generally) a belief held by any person that he or she is supremely powerful and capable of anything; compare earlier Messianic complex.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Far Eastern Quarterly.
- misreckoning
- misrecognise
- misrecognition
- misrecognize
- misrecollect
- misrecollection
- misregard
- misregister
- misregistered
- misregistration
- misrelate
- misrelated
- misrelation
- misremember
- misremembrance
- misrender
- misrepeat
- misreport
- misreporter
- misrepresent
- misrepresentation
- misrepresentative
- misrepresenter
- misroute
- misrouteing