inferiority

• POS: Noun
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CIDE DICTIONARY

inferiority,  [Cf. F. infériorité.].

 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."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inferiority, n. the state of being inferior.

Idiom

inferiority complex an unrealistic feeling of general inadequacy caused by actual or supposed inferiority in one sphere, sometimes marked by aggressive behaviour in compensation.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

inferiority

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.