A lower state of dignity, age, value or quality. We speak of the inferiority of rank, of office, of talents, of age, of worth.
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Inferiority
Webster's Dictionary 1913
The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth.
Inequality Roget’s Thesaurus §28
N. inequality, disparity, imparity, odds, difference, unevenness, inclination of the balance, partiality, bias, weight, shortcoming, casting weight, make- weight, superiority, inferiority, inequation
V. be unequal, countervail, have the advantage, give the advantage, turn the scale, kick the beam, topple, topple over, overmatch, not come up to
Adj. unequal, uneven, disparate, partial, unbalanced, overbalanced, top-heavy, lopsided, biased, skewed, disquiparant
Adv. haud passibus aequis
Inferiority Roget’s Thesaurus §34
N. inferiority, minority, subordinacy, shortcoming, deficiency, minimum, smallness, imperfection, lower quality, lower worth, commonalty
V. be inferior, fall short of, come short of, not pass, not come up to, want, become smaller, render smaller, (contract) 195, hide its diminished head, retire into the shade, yield the palm, play second fiddle, be upstaged, take a back seat
Adj. inferior, smaller, small, minor, less, lesser, deficient, minus, lower, subordinate, secondary, second-rate, sub, subaltern, thrown into the shade, weighed in the balance and found wanting, not fit to hold a candle to, can't hold a candle to, least, smallest &c. (see little, small ), lowest, diminished, reduced, unimportant
Adv. less, under the mark, below the mark, below par, at the bottom of the scale, at a low ebb, at a disadvantage, short of, under, changes in quantity
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