inferiority

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
inferiority
    n 1: the state of being inferior [syn: {inferiority}, {lower
         status}, {lower rank}]
    2: an inferior quality [syn: {inferiority}, {low quality}] [ant:
       {high quality}, {superiority}]
    3: the quality of being a competitive disadvantage [syn:
       {inferiority}, {unfavorable position}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
128 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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