What is "inferiority"

Usage examples of "inferiority".

There was a great deal wrong with the Rustic Slicker, and he, Bayard Lodge, knew the Rustic Slicker as he knew no other manknew the blood and guts and brains of him, knew his thoughts and dreams and his hidden yearnings, his clodhopperish conceit, his smart-aleck snicker, the burning inferiority complex that drove him to social exhibitionism.

The inferiority of number was, however, compensated by the advantage of the ground.

This flood of Russkies was giving other nations inferiority complexes, lousing up their morale.

Pending the completion of the researches of Lewis, the Royal Society of England, affected by complaints from all quarters relative to the inferiority of inks as compared with those of earlier times, brought the subject to the attention of many of its members for discussion and advice.

It will mean the penalization of real worth and the endowment of inferiority and incompetence.

But my main point is not where precisely to draw this linedraw it wherever you feel comfortablebut that the line itself involves preeminently the distinction between inferiority and exteriority.

This perception would fuel his general frustration at being misunderstood, that his skills were underappreciated, and his sense of inferiority.

To him she was such a goddess that she must be right--and therefore his own inferiority to such a one as Ferdinand Lopez was proved.

The advantage, whatever it may be, is utterly outbalanced by numerical inferiority.

Though Racketts, Mudges, and Blunts attended our school and worshiped in our Temple, though they were at least as prosperous as we in town save the converts in their mansions, we knew them tainted with an essential inferiority.

These plants exhibit still more plainly their inferiority to animals in the absence of any reflex action, except in so far as the glands of Drosera, when excited from a distance, send back some influence which causes the contents of the cells to become aggregated down to the bases of the tentacles.

The purity of the Patagonian salt, or absence from it of those other saline bodies found in all sea-water, is the only assignable cause for this inferiority: a conclusion which no one, I think, would have suspected, but which is supported by the fact lately ascertained, [3] that those salts answer best for preserving cheese which contain most of the deliquescent chlorides.

Why did there always have to be distinctions, arrogantly displayed as superiorities, or derided as inferiorities?

For example, you can reduce feelings of inferiority, shame, and guilt by being a high achiever and behaving morally (level l, chapter 11), by desensitizing yourself or using stress inoculation (level 2, chapter 12), by learning new skills (level 3, chapter 13), and by recognizing the sources of your low self-esteem in childhood and lovingly reassuring the scared little boy/girl still within you (level 5, chapter 15).

It treated The Discoverie of Witchcraft seriously, complimented Giles on the fine sense of form which it revealed, praised the splendid melodic gift which Domdaniel had mentioned, and also called attention to the inferiority of the purely instrumental passages, though it said that they were interest­ingly laid out for the small group of instruments used.