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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
John C. Calhoun

Meaning of "inferiority" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INFERIORITY

inferiority  [ɪnˌfɪərɪˈɒrɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INFERIORITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Inferiority is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INFERIORITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Inferiority complex

An inferiority complex is a lack of self-worth, a doubt and uncertainty, and feelings of not measuring up to society's standards. It is often subconscious, and is thought to drive afflicted individuals to overcompensate, resulting either in spectacular achievement or extreme asocial behavior. The term was coined to indicate a lack of covert self-esteem. For many, it is developed through a combination of genetic personality characteristics and personal experiences...

Definition of inferiority in the English dictionary

The definition of inferiority in the dictionary is lower worth or status.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INFERIORITY


anteriority
ænˌtɪərɪˈɒrɪtɪ
anti-authority
ˌæntɪɔːˈθɒrɪtɪ
apriority
ˌeɪpraɪˈɒrɪtɪ
authority
ɔːˈθɒrɪtɪ
celebrity
sɪˈlɛbrɪtɪ
deteriority
dɪˌtɪərɪˈɒrɪtɪ
exteriority
ɪkˈstɪərɪˈɒrɪtɪ
interiority
ɪnˌtɪərɪˈɒrɪtɪ
juniority
ˌdʒuːnɪˈɒrɪtɪ
majority
məˈdʒɒrɪtɪ
meliority
ˌmiːlɪˈɒrɪtɪ
minority
maɪˈnɒrɪtɪ
nonminority
ˌnɒnmaɪˈnɒrɪtɪ
posteriority
pəˌstɪərɪˈɒrɪtɪ
pretty
ˈprɪtɪ
priority
praɪˈɒrɪtɪ
seniority
ˌsiːnɪˈɒrɪtɪ
sonority
səˈnɒrɪtɪ
sorority
səˈrɒrɪtɪ
supermajority
ˌsuːpərməˈdʒɒrɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INFERIORITY

inferencing
inferential
inferential statistics
inferentially
inferiae
inferible
inferior
inferior conjunction
inferior court
inferior planet
inferiority complex
inferiorly
infernal
infernal machine
infernality
infernally
inferno
inferrable
inferred
inferrer

WORDS THAT END LIKE INFERIORITY

Advertising Standards Authority
aperture priority
Atomic Energy Authority
aviation authority
charity
Civil Aviation Authority
ethnic minority
Financial Services Authority
Greater London Authority
Health Authority
in the majority
local authority
local education authority
Palestinian National Authority
port authority
shutter priority
simple majority
superiority
tax authority
unitary authority
water authority

Synonyms and antonyms of inferiority in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INFERIORITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «inferiority» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of inferiority

Translation of «inferiority» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INFERIORITY

Find out the translation of inferiority to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of inferiority from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «inferiority» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自卑
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inferioridad
570 millions of speakers

English

inferiority
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

हीनता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الدونية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неполноценности
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inferioridade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কমি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

infériorité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rendah diri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unterlegenheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

劣等
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

열등감
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Inferiority
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hạ cấp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தாழ்வு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अल्पमता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

aşağılık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inferiorità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niższości
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неповноцінності
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

inferioritate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κατωτερότητας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

minderwaardigheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

inferiority
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

underlegenhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of inferiority

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INFERIORITY»

The term «inferiority» is quite widely used and occupies the 52.194 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INFERIORITY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about inferiority

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10 QUOTES WITH «INFERIORITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word inferiority.
1
Peter Abrahams
The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings.
2
Alfred Adler
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
3
Alfred Adler
The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
4
Alfred Adler
Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
5
Alfred Adler
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
6
Alvin Ailey
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
7
Simone de Beauvoir
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
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Simone de Beauvoir
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
9
John C. Calhoun
The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
10
Helena Bonham Carter
When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INFERIORITY»

Discover the use of inferiority in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to inferiority and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority ...
'' After all, Barack Obama has reached the Promised Land. Yet, as Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority testifies, too much of black America is still wandering in the wilderness.
Tom Burrell, 2010
2
Design and Analysis of Non-Inferiority Trials
Each chapter begins with a non-technical introduction, making the text easily understood by those without prior knowledge of this type of trial.
Mark D. Rothmann, Brian L. Wiens, Ivan S.F. Chan, 2011
3
Study of Organ Inferiority and Its Psychical Compensation: A ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Alfred Adler, 2012
4
Discovering the Real You and Overcoming Inferiority
This book is not just for reading, it is an exercise book instructing you on how anyone can lead a successful, fulfilling and happy life. Fantastic reading.
M. A. S. Reid, 2003
5
Inferiority Feelings: In the Individual and the Group
She does not consciously suffer from her inferiority, but her coquetry and somewhat arrogant self-confidence will be continually fed by the repressed feeling of inferiority which persists in the unconscious.' All this is too complicated, too ...
Oliver Brachfeld, 2013
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Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial ...
In the only book to date to explore the period between the 1859 publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species and the discovery in 1900 of Gregor Mendel’s experiments in genetics, John S. Haller, Jr., shows the relationship between ...
John S. Haller, 1971
7
Inferiority
A mesmerizing and intense novel. It will engulf the reader until its last page.
Evan Sackett, 2007
8
Biostatistics: The Bare Essentials
This raises the issues of what we mean by Type I and Type II errors in non- inferiority trials, and what effect this has on power. Type I and Type II Errors Because we've flipped the meaning of the null and alternate hypotheses, we also have to ...
Geoffrey R. Norman, David L. Streiner, 2008
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A Heritage of Inferiority: Public Criticism and the American ...
Journalist W. J. Cash's "Savage Ideal," historian Sheldon Hackney's "siege-mentality," literary critic Fred Hobson's "rage to explain," and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Drum Major Instinct," all describe the same regional disorder: a deep ...
Angela Christine Maxwell, 2008
10
Adlerian Lifestyle Counseling: Practice and Research
It was this belief in the multiplicity of response to organic inferiority which gave Adler his first inkling that the patient as an interactional person contributed something subjectively to the situation in which he found himself. Illness was not a ...
Warren R. Rule, Malachy Bishop, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INFERIORITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term inferiority is used in the context of the following news items.
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Steven Universe Episode Recap 'Friend Ship': We Are The Lumpy …
Pearl admits the heartbreaking inferiority complex that we all knew she had, but that still hurts to hear her confess: “No matter how hard I try to ... «iDigitalTimes.com, Jul 15»
2
This Anime Isn't Really About Picking Up Girls In a Dungeon
Bell's inferiority complex is the central facet of his character. It is also the source of his power—quite literally in this case. Bell's first skill allows ... «Kotaku, Jul 15»
3
"Secularisation has really created a void of understanding"
Some want to attribute backwardness and inferiority to 1.5 billion people and a religion, insisting that they are superior to them. What they are ... «Qantara.de, Jul 15»
4
Forget Pete Rose, Todd Frazier is now Cincinnati Reds' favorite son …
What you need to understand, to put this into context, is that Cincinnati has a bit of an inferiority complex. The whole city desperately wanted to ... «ESPN, Jul 15»
5
bc-manrs adv02 07-16 : Lifestyles - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
But what you describe, and Miss Manners deplores, is a peculiarly old sense of inferiority, echoing the sneers of Europeans two centuries ago, ... «STLtoday.com, Jul 15»
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How 'Ant-Man' Believably Pulled Off the 'Incredible Shrin … - Indiewire
... in the context of 'The Avengers,' an inferiority complex because he's this tiny hero fighting alongside the Hulk and Thor," Reed explained. «Indie Wire, Jul 15»
7
Portland is a treat for all your senses | The Charlotte Observer The …
Sure it's a smaller West Coast destination, but Portland, Ore., doesn't suffer from an inferiority complex. Forget about walkable: This city is ... «Charlotte Observer, Jul 15»
8
Secession, the Confederate Flag, and Slavery
... slavery, but also on the assumption of the racial and ethnic superiority of the ruling class and the utter inferiority and subordination of blacks. «Constitution Daily, Jul 15»
9
TV networks watch as a stream of honorees from Netflix and …
Emmy may be giving the broadcast networks an inferiority complex. CBS, NBC and Fox were shut out of the drama category for four straight ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
10
More Wonky Reports About RI Economy | Rhode Island Public Radio
They also segue into our small state's big inferiority complex. Why should we pay attention to such rankings that compare us to states that have ... «Rhode Island Public Radio, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Inferiority [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/inferiority>. May 2024 ».
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