'Inferiority' definitions:
Definition of 'inferiority'
(from WordNet)
noun
The state of being inferior [syn: inferiority, lower status, lower rank]
noun
noun
The quality of being a competitive disadvantage [syn: inferiority, unfavorable position]
Definition of 'Inferiority'
From: GCIDE
- Inferiority \In*fe`ri*or"i*ty\, [Cf. F. inf['e]riorit['e].] The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. [1913 Webster]
- A deep sense of our own great inferiority. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'inferiority'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrance,
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- abnormality,
- abnormity,
- amorphism,
- anomalism,
- anomalousness,
- anomaly,
- arrear,
- arrearage,
- arrears,
- badness,
- baseness,
- coarseness,
- commonness,
- damnability,
- decline,
- defalcation,
- default,
- defectiveness,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- delinquency,
- derangement,
- deviation,
- difference,
- disability,
- disablement,
- disqualification,
- divergence,
- eccentricity,
- erraticism,
- evilness,
- failure,
- falling short,
- fourth-rateness,
- heteromorphism,
- humbleness,
- imbecility,
- immateriality,
- imperfection,
- improperness,
- inability,
- inaccuracy,
- inadequacy,
- inauspiciousness,
- incapability,
- incapacitation,
- incapacity,
- incompetence,
- incompetency,
- inconsequence,
- inconsequentiality,
- inconsiderableness,
- indifference,
- ineffectuality,
- inefficiency,
- ineptitude,
- inexpedience,
- infancy,
- inferiorness,
- insignificance,
- insufficiency,
- invalidity,
- irregularity,
- irrelevance,
- juniority,
- legal incapacity,
- littleness,
- low priority,
- lower status,
- lowliness,
- malevolence,
- marginality,
- meanness,
- mediocrity,
- minority,
- monstrosity,
- moral badness,
- negligibility,
- peccancy,
- pettiness,
- picayune,
- picayunishness,
- pokiness,
- poorness,
- puniness,
- reprehensibility,
- satellite status,
- second-rateness,
- secondariness,
- service,
- servitorship,
- shoddiness,
- short measure,
- shortage,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- slightness,
- slump,
- smallness,
- subjecthood,
- subnormality,
- subordinacy,
- subordinate role,
- subordination,
- subservience,
- subserviency,
- superiority,
- teratism,
- third-rateness,
- underage,
- unfavorableness,
- unfitness,
- unhealthiness,
- unimportance,
- unimpressiveness,
- unkindness,
- unnaturalism,
- unnaturalness,
- unnoteworthiness,
- unpleasantness,
- unskillfulness,
- viciousness,
- wardship,
- wickedness,
- worthlessness
Words containing 'Inferiority'
- Inferior,
- Inferiorly,
- Inferior court,
- Inferior figure,
- Inferior letter,
- Inferior tide,
- inferior colliculus,
- inferior conjunction,
- inferior planet,
- inferior rectus,
- inferiority complex,
- rectus inferior,
- arteria alveolaris inferior,
- arteria labialis inferior,
- deficient inferior substandard,
- inferior alveolar artery,
- inferior cerebellar artery,
- inferior cerebral vein,
- inferior epigastric vein,
- inferior labial artery,
- inferior labial vein,
- inferior mesenteric artery,
- inferior ophthalmic vein,
- inferior pulmonary vein,
- inferior rectus muscle,
- inferior thalamostriate vein,
- inferior thyroid vein,
- inferior vena cava,
- inferior vocal cord,
- inferior vocal fold,
- serratus posterior inferior,
- vena epigastrica inferior,
- vena labialis inferior,
- vena pulmanalis inferior,
- venae cerebrum inferior