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