inferiority
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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]
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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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