Synonyms of inferiority

inferiority

noun

as in worthlessness

Related Words

• worthlessness
• badness
• adequacy
• acceptability
• sufficiency
• satisfactoriness
• crumminess
• normality
• typicality
• commonplaceness
• fairness
• commonness
• mundaneness
• normalness
• typicalness
• usualness
• mundanity
• everydayness
• mediocrity
• averageness
• unremarkableness
• ordinariness
• routine
• second-rateness

Dissimilar Words

• superiority
• supremacy
• exceptionality
• greatness
• importance
• excellence
• specialness
• perfection
• distinction
• preeminence
• excellency
• extraordinariness
• exquisiteness
• consequence
• grandness
• exceptionalness
• marvelousness
• primeness
• fabulousness
• splendidness
• superbness
• choiceness
• superlativeness
• supremeness
• value
• notability
• perfectness
• flawlessness
• deficiency
• goodness
• impeccability
• faultlessness
• inadequacy
• worth
• unacceptability
• sterlingness
• insufficiency
• first-rateness
• unsatisfactoriness
• inadequateness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of inferiority

Iran’s conventional military power could not match that of Israel or the United States, but Tehran had spent decades building the ability to compensate for its conventional inferiority by creating military capacity outside its territory. — Nadia Schadlow, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2026

Your instinct might be to see it as proof of your inferiority. — Marisa G. Franco, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026

My work shows how the growing association between alligators and Black bodies was part of this larger campaign to reinforce notions of Black inferiority. — The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026

Because slavish inferiority did not befit his spirit. — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026

Indeed, the American League’s inferiority to the National this year is palpable. — Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 20 June 2026

Amadeus is a portrait of a man realizing his own inferiority and losing his religion as a result, and Bettany’s incredible rendition of Salieri shapes the series’ rumination on who yearns to command a stage and why. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 11 May 2026

There’s no one to root for here, an impression that’s underlined by the consistent lack of inferiority within the characters. — Katie Rife, IndieWire, 16 Mar. 2026

Since the 1970s, feminist scholars have been actively documenting the ways menstruation has been used to ground false arguments about women’s weakness, invalidism, and inferiority in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. — Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026