inferiority

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The cause of this estimate of her inferiority was her lack of education.

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  1. The state of being inferior, especially in degree or quality; a lower state or condition. The genuine effect of a nearer or more attentive view of infinite excellency is a deep sense of our own great inferiority to it. Boyle, Works, V. 154. I declare I always feel my inferiority almost too much when I am with people who can really talk—talk like that. C. F. Woolson, Jupiter Lights, xv.
  2. In logic, the character of a sign, name, proposition, or inference which is applicable to only a part of the cases to which another is applicable.

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  1. = French infériorité = Spanish inferioridad = Portuguese inferioridade = Italian inferiorità, from Middle Latin inferiorita(t-)s, from Latin inferior, lower: see inferior.
 

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