complex (noun)
61Oedipus complex — ► NOUN ▪ (in Freudian theory) the complex of emotions aroused in a young child by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex. DERIVATIVES Oedipal adjective. ORIGIN by association with Oedipus in Greek mythology, who… …
62apartment complex — a partment ,complex noun count AMERICAN a large group of apartment buildings …
63inferiority complex — inferi ority ,complex noun count a strong feeling that you are not as good, important, or intelligent as other people …
64persecution complex — perse cution ,complex noun count a mental illness in which you believe that everyone is unfair or cruel to you …
65acid soil complex — noun (botany) A combination of aluminium and/or manganese toxicity with calcium deficiency which has a detrimental effect on calcicole plants • • • Main Entry: ↑acid …
66guilt complex — noun A mental preoccupation with one s (real or imagined) guilt • • • Main Entry: ↑guilt …
67imaginary part of a complex number — noun the part of a complex number that has the square root of 1 as a factor • Syn: ↑imaginary part • Hypernyms: ↑pure imaginary number • Part Holonyms: ↑complex number, ↑complex quantity, ↑imaginary number, ↑ …
68Oedipal complex — noun a complex of males; desire to possess the mother sexually and to exclude the father; said to be a source of personality disorders if unresolved • Syn: ↑Oedipus complex • Hypernyms: ↑complex …
69culture complex — noun : complex III 1a * * * Sociol. a group of culture traits all interrelated and dominated by one essential trait: Nationalism is a culture complex. * * * culture complex, Anthropology, Sociology. a pattern of interrelated culture traits …
70synaptonemal complex — noun Etymology: synaptic + o or i + Greek nēma thread more at nemat Date: 1958 a complex tripartite protein structure that spans the region between synapsed chromosomes in meiotic prophase called also syn.ap.ti.ne.mal complex …