superiority

[su·pe·ri·or]

Superiority is the quality of being better than or superior to someone else. Your superiority in the sack race won you a first place ribbon.

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The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit.

Noun
the quality of being superior

Noun
displaying a sense of being better than others; "he hated the white man''s superiority and condescension"

Noun
the quality of being a competitive advantage

Noun
the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits


n.
The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit.


Superiority

Su*pe`ri*or"i*ty , n. [Cf. F. sup'82riorit'82, LL. superioritas.] The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit. Syn. -- Pre'89minence; excellence; predominancy; prevalence; ascendency; odds; advantage.

The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit.

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Usage Examples

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can't tolerate that because we fear that any mistake, no matter how minor, could have devastating consequences. So we proclaim the superiority of our own choices. We've lost sight of the fact that people have preferences.

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

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Other Usage Examples

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

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