inferiority
IPA: ɪnfɪriˈɔrɪti
noun
- The quality or state of being inferior.
- An inferior value or quality.
- An inferior power.
- The quality of being a competitive disadvantage.
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Examples of "inferiority" in Sentences
- Our sense of inferiority is not, happily, one of our exports.
- If you don't risk equality and you trap yourself in inferiority.
- This sense of inferiority translates into the "chip on the shoulder" attitude.
- Flann O’Brien’s relative inferiority is as much a matter of style as of substance.
- He is deeply conscious of his own inferiority from the narrowness of the scope in which he has lived during the course of his past life.
- The fact that the governments did not use the term "inferior" does not change the fact that Hawaiian academic inferiority is the basis of their argument.
- To say that it’s troubling that she has a starting assumption that African Americans are genetically disposed to be less intelligent than whites, and that she needs evidence to disprove her starting assumption of their intellectual inferiority, is not to argue that she’s a racist because she didn’t consider whether African Americans may be more intelligent than whites.
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