Usually means: Feeling lesser in comparison to others.
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  1. inferiority: Merriam-Webster
  2. inferiority: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inferiority: Collins English Dictionary
  4. inferiority: Vocabulary.com
  5. Inferiority, inferiority: Wordnik
  6. inferiority: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. inferiority: Wiktionary
  8. inferiority: Dictionary.com
  9. inferiority: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Inferiority: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Inferiority: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. inferiority: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. inferiority: Rhymezone
  14. inferiority: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. inferiority: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. inferiority: FreeDictionary.org
  17. inferiority: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. inferiority: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. inferiority: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. inferiority: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. inferiority: Legal dictionary

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  1. inferiority: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. inferiority: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. inferiority: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (inferiority)

▸ noun:  The quality or state of being inferior.
▸ noun:  An inferior value or quality.
▸ noun:  An inferior power.
▸ noun:  The quality of being a competitive disadvantage.

Similar:
low quality, lower rank, lower status, unfavorable position, inferiourity, inferiorness, nonquality, deteriority, subordination, deficientness, more...

Opposite:
superiority, excellence, supremacy

Phrases:
inferiority complex, inferiority complexes, opposite of inferiority, more...

Adjectives:
racial, own, social, intellectual, black, numerical, mental, female, physical, natural, moral

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Similar:
low quality, lower rank, lower status, unfavorable position, inferiourity, inferiorness, nonquality, deteriority, subordination, deficientness, more...

Opposite:
superiority, excellence, supremacy

Phrases:
inferiority complex, inferiority complexes, opposite of inferiority, more...

Adjectives:
racial, own, social, intellectual, black, numerical, mental, female, physical, natural, moral

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     brown,     olive,     taupe, more...



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