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RELATED WORD : inferiority complex

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun inferiority has 3 senses

• inferiority(n = noun.state) lower rank, lower status - the state of being inferior; Array
is a kind of low status, lowliness, lowness
has particulars: backseat, shade, subordinateness, subsidiarity
Derived form adjective inferior₆

• inferiority(n = noun.attribute) low quality - an inferior quality; Array
is a kind of caliber, calibre, quality
has particulars: poorness, scrawniness, scrubbiness, second class, wretchedness
Derived form adjective inferior₂
Antonym: superiority

• inferiority(n = noun.attribute) unfavorable position - the quality of being a competitive disadvantage; Array
is a kind of disadvantage

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inferiority

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

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Inequality

N inequality, disparity, imparity, odds, difference, unevenness, inclination of the balance, partiality, bias, weight, shortcoming, casting weight, make-weight, superiority, inferiority, inequation, unequal, uneven, disparate, partial, unbalanced, overbalanced, top-heavy, lopsided, biased, skewed, disquiparant, haud passibus aequis.

Inferiority

N inferiority, minority, subordinacy, shortcoming, deficiency, minimum, smallness, imperfection, lower quality, lower worth, commonalty, inferior, smaller, small, minor, less, lesser, deficient, minus, lower, subordinate, secondary, secondrate, sub, subaltern, thrown into the shade, weighed in the balance and found wanting, not fit to hold a candle to, can't hold a candle to, least, smallest &c (little) (small), lowest, diminished, reduced, unimportant, less, under the mark, below the mark, below par, at the bottom of the scale, at a low ebb, at a disadvantage, short of, under.

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