English Explanatory Dictionary

edifice complex

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The desire to construct or own spectacularly imposing buildings.

Word forms

edifice complex edifice complexes

Etymology

From the psychoanalytical sense of complex, and a pun on Oedipus complex.

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