Synonyms for inferiority
in·fe·ri·or·i·ty

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1. inferioritynoun

   Antonyms:
   superiority

2. inferioritynoun

   Antonyms:
   superiority

3. inferioritynoun

   Antonyms:
   superiority

4. inferioritynoun

   Antonyms:
   superiority

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1. inferiority

   Synonyms:
   subordination, minority, poverty, mediocrity, subjection, servitude, depression

   Antonyms:
   superiority, majority, excellence, eminence, independence, mastery, exaltation, elevation

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1. inferiority, lower status, lower ranknoun

   the state of being inferior

   Synonyms:
   low quality, unfavorable position, lower rank, lower status

   Antonyms:
   superiority, high quality

2. inferiority, low qualitynoun

   an inferior quality

   Synonyms:
   low quality, unfavorable position, lower rank, lower status

   Antonyms:
   high quality, superiority

3. inferiority, unfavorable positionnoun

   the quality of being a competitive disadvantage

   Synonyms:
   low quality, unfavorable position, lower rank, lower status

   Antonyms:
   high quality, superiority

Matched Categories

1. • Disadvantage
   • Quality

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1. inferioritynoun

   Synonyms:
   lower state or condition

2. inferioritynoun

   Synonyms:
   subordination

3. inferioritynoun

   Synonyms:
   mediocrity, poor quality

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1. inferioritynoun

   Synonyms:
   subordinacy, mediocrity, deficiency

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1. Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket":

   The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

2. Danielle Atkinson:

   If we teach a generation of young people that, after the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation and all of the events of the 1860s, attempts to integrate free people failed and there were repressive laws enacted that weren't repealed for almost a century, then we're going to have different conversations, we're going to have historical context for why the country is the way it is, instead of thinking that the fact that Black people are at the bottom of every metric is indicative of our deficit or our inferiority.

3. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

   Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

4. Vanna Bonta:

   I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.

5. Oscar Wilde:

   The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.