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UK
/suːpˌiəɹɪˈɒɹɪti/
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[ US /ˌsupɪɹiˈɔɹɪti/ ]
[ US /ˌsupɪɹiˈɔɹɪti/ ]
NOUN
- the quality of being superior
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displaying a sense of being better than others
he hated the white man's superiority and condescension - the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits
- the quality of being at a competitive advantage
How To Use superiority In A Sentence
- Instead of talking about the mechanical superiority of their latest cars, manufacturers hired the sexiest, perkiest breasted young women they could find to writhe, lean and lick their lips next to their new products. Judith Acosta: How Marketers Capitalize On Your Fear: Confessions Of An Ex-Ad-Woman
- It gives them an air of superiority that makes them seem impervious to other people's feelings. Times, Sunday Times
- They realized it would be suicidal to resist in the face of overwhelming military superiority.
- It should already be clear that it was Mariana, rather than Suarez, who might be called the forebear of John Locke's theory of popular consent and the continuing superiority of the people to the government. LewRockwell.com
- This procedure is a form of critique: the photomontage provides us a critical distance to reflect on what we had been prompted to desire, whether it was a luxury product, an ideal of feminine beauty, a racial superiority, or an entire way of life. Merrill Cole: WikiLeaks and David Wojnarowicz: A Perspective from Berlin
- It is the general rule, that all superior men inherit the elements ofsuperiority from their mother.
- It is such a mouth as we can imagine some remorseless inquisitor to have had -- that is, not an inquisitor filled with holy zeal for what he mistakenly thought the cause of Christ demanded, but a spleeny, envious, rancorous shaveling, who tortured men from hatred of their superiority to him, and sheer love of inflicting pain. Andersonville — Volume 1
- I've never heard the term aged news," said Mr. Berke, giving off an air of superiority, even if it was a feeble attempt at being funny. Times Editors Bomb in Daily Show Visit
- In short, without air superiority mobile forces may be extremely vulnerable and air superiority can probably be guaranteed for only comparatively short periods of time. NATO's Changing Strategic Agenda
- Stanley's complaint is about the inadequacy of phyletic gradualism to account for the known facts of paleontology and the superiority of punctuated equilibria as an explanation for those facts.