inferiority

noun

as in worthlessness

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Recent Examples of inferiority 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 Just to be clear, Trump supporters are now rubbing the inferiority of women in the face of women who ask for support for girls sports. — Megan Schrader, Denver Post, 25 Feb. 2026 Statistically, the results did not show that CagriSema performed equivalently to Lilly’s drug — what’s known as non-inferiority. — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 23 Feb. 2026 These feelings of inferiority were, at times, amplified at home. — Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inferiority
  1. worthlessness
  2. badness
  3. adequacy
  4. acceptability
  5. sufficiency
Noun
  • He is simultaneously convinced of his own worthlessness and angry with the world for failing to recognize his unlimited potential.
    — Big Think, Big Think, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Johnson said depression often manifests as persistent negative self-perception, hopelessness, feelings of worthlessness and social withdrawal.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 8 Mar. 2026
Definition of worthlessness
Noun
  • On one side, a satanic figure named Randall Flagg who gathers his forces of badness to Las Vegas; on the other, the good guys, led by 108-year-old Mother Abigail in, of all places, Boulder.
    — Barbara Ellis, Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The show premiered over Thanksgiving weekend, when people were tired and full and bored (and probably also horny), and countered our world’s unceasing badness with its world’s buoyant sweetness.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
Definition of badness
Noun
  • The formula set a district’s adequacy target based on factors like demographics, enrollment and student needs.
    — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Employers and health plans should evaluate newly available claims data to assess timing and adequacy of prenatal visits, postpartum visits, and appropriate vaccination both before and during pregnancy to protect the mother and her newborn.
    — Jeff Levin-Scherz, STAT, 23 July 2026
Definition of adequacy
Noun
  • Today, everyone from the Economist to the New York Times has heralded the coming psychedelics renaissance, as hallucinogens begin to gain greater cultural, medical and commercial acceptability.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 July 2026
  • The rate has been gradually dropping for decades, due to cigarette taxes, tobacco product price hikes, smoking bans, public education campaigns and changes in the social acceptability of lighting up in public.
    — Mike Stobbe, Fortune, 29 May 2026
Definition of acceptability
Noun
  • Since then, the case has remained in the pleading stage, where the county has challenged the sufficiency of the claims without answering them, and the child’s attorneys have revised their complaint three times.
    — Bay City News, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2026
  • This freedom includes the expression of health, harmony, sufficiency, and the ability to think and act rightly.
    — Rob Nofsinger, Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2026
Definition of sufficiency

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