inferiority
inferior
noun[ C ]
uk /ɪnˈfɪə.ri.ər/ us /ɪnˈfɪr.i.ɚ/
C2
someone who is considered to be less important than other people: （人）低等
He regarded most men as his social, moral, and intellectual inferiors.他认为大部分人在社会地位、道德和智力上都低他一等。

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inferior | American Dictionary

inferior
adjective
us/ɪnˈfɪər·i·ər/
worse than average, or not as good as others of the same type:
She felt inferior to her older sister.

inferiority

noun[ U ]us/ɪnˌfɪər·iˈɔr·ɪ·t̬i, -ˈɑr-/
feelings of inferiority

Examples of inferior

inferior
Most likely, phonological plans and articulatory gestures are wired in primary motor and premotor cortices in the inferior frontal lobe.
Ordinary women's inferior rights to land were a key aspect in women's subordination as a whole.
The volume of grey matter was reduced in the right inferior parietal lobule and the left middle, inferior and precentral gyri.
The person has perhaps closed her spiritual eyes, and thus is in an inferior epistemic position.
But this was an inferior argument, and almost all scholars realized it.
She acknowledges her inferior position by gesture, movement and posture, knowing that her deference and submissiveness are her best defences at the early stages.
Both imperialistic politics and bacteriological science relied on images of inferior and invisible but potent enemies.
In condescending he refuses to take his inferiors for granted, but suggests instead that their labor is something to be earned.
Other conjugates showed a variable degree of cross-reactivity with jird immunoglobulins, but their reactions were inferior to the aforementioned anti-mouse or anti-rat immunoglobulin conjugates.
Only anterior/posterior images have been included in this analysis, so deviations are along the right/left or superior/inferior directions.
Both patients showed a nontortuous arterial duct inserting normally with the descending aorta at an obtuse inferior angle.
This considerably more widespread aesthetic should not be marked inferior; it is merely less suitable, if you want to distinguish yourself by displaying cultural capital.
Moreover, some varieties were manifestly inferior no matter what the conditions in which they were grown.
It contained superior and inferior endocardial cushions which had not yet fused.
Venous waveforms in the inferior vena cava and ductus venosus are triphasic with peaks corresponding to maximum systolic velocity, maximum diastolic velocity and atrial systole.
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