INFERIORITY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for INFERIORITY?

Need another word that means the same as “inferiority”? Find 19 synonyms and 30 related words for “inferiority” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Inferiority” are: low quality, lower rank, lower status, lowliness, inferior status, inferior position, secondary status, secondary position, subordination, subservience, subjection, servitude, shoddiness, unfitness, unsatisfactoriness, poorness, cheapness, mediocrity, indifference

Inferiority as a Noun

Definitions of "Inferiority" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “inferiority” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• An inferior quality.
• The state of being inferior.
• The quality of being a competitive disadvantage.
• The condition of being lower in status or quality than another or others.

Synonyms of "Inferiority" as a noun (19 Words)

cheapness	The quality of being selfish with money; miserliness. The plastic chassis contributes a sense of cheapness.
indifference	The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally. She shrugged feigning indifference.
inferior position	A character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character.
inferior status	A character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character.
low quality	British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963.
lower rank	The lower of two berths.
lower status	The lower of two berths.
lowliness	A position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation.
mediocrity	A person of mediocre ability. The team suddenly came good after years of mediocrity.
poorness	The quality of being meager-George Eliot. She was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography.
secondary position	The defensive football players who line up behind the linemen.
secondary status	Coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil.
servitude	The state of being a slave or completely subject to someone more powerful. Penal servitude.
shoddiness	The property of weakness by virtue of careless construction.
subjection	The act of conquering. The country s subjection to European colonialism.
subordination	An assistant subject to the authority or control of another. The subordination of medicine to political expediency.
subservience	Abject or cringing submissiveness. All his actions were in subservience to the general plan.
unfitness	The quality of not being suitable. The judges agreed on his unfitness for the appointment.
unsatisfactoriness	The quality of being inadequate or unsuitable.

Usage Examples of "Inferiority" as a noun

• His sense of failure adds to his feelings of inferiority.
• They were exiled or degraded to a position of inferiority.

Associations of "Inferiority" (30 Words)

after	At a later or future time afterwards. Duke Frederick died soon after.
axle	A rod or spindle (either fixed or rotating) passing through the centre of a wheel or group of wheels. Axle grease.
back	Lie behind or at the back of. He had a newspaper empire backing him.
backward	In or to or toward a past time. A backward agricultural country.
backwards	Towards the past. The songs look backwards to long ago battles.
backwater	A place or situation in which no development or progress is taking place. The bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos.
behind	A kick that sends the ball over a behind line or a touch that sends it between the inner posts scoring one point. A company that has been run behindhand for years.
decadence	Luxurious self-indulgence. He denounced Western decadence.
degeneracy	Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles. The degeneracy of later Roman work.
degeneration	The process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality. Overgrazing has caused serious degeneration of grassland.
dorsal	On or relating to the upper side or back of an animal, plant, or organ. The dorsal aorta.
following	Immediately following in time or order. The crowd of following cars made the occasion seem like a parade.
inferior	An inferior letter figure or symbol. Her social and intellectual inferiors.
latency	The time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it. The latency of tumours in mice.
later	At a time in the near future; soon or afterwards. A later symptom of the disease.
medial	Situated in the middle. A medial ligament.
piteous	Deserving or arousing pity. Piteous appeals for help.
posterior	A tooth situated at the back of the mouth. A date posterior to the first Reform Bill.
rear	Located in or toward the back or rear. To his rear was a group of figures.
regress	Calculate the coefficient or coefficients of regression of a variable against or on another variable. They would not regress to pre technological tribalism.
regression	(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state. A past life regression.
regressive	Returning to a former or less developed state; characterized by regression. Indirect taxes are as a group regressive.
spine	A tall mass of viscous lava extruded from a volcano. The Mt Pelee spine was exceptional only for its extreme height over 300 metres.
subsequent	Coming after something in time; following. The theory was developed subsequent to the earthquake of 1906.
substandard	Below the usual or required standard. Substandard spellings.
tail	Remove or shorten the tail of an animal. I was getting worried that both of us would be chasing tail and getting into trouble for the rest of our lives.
ulterior	Beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote- G.B.Shaw. Without ulterior argument.
underneath	Partly or wholly concealed by a garment. There was plenty of storage room underneath.
ventral	On or relating to the underside of an animal or plant; abdominal. The ventral aspect of the human body.
wretched	Characterized by physical misery. Wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages.