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superiority

[ suh-peer-ee-awr-i-tee, -or-, soo- ]

noun

  1. the quality or condition of being superior.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of superiority1

First recorded in 1520–30, superiority is from the Medieval Latin word superiōritāt- (stem of superiōritās ). See superior, -ity
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Example Sentences

The zombies inside the locker rooms suppose themselves pre-inoculated by their physical superiority and their privileged habitations, fortified by private laboratory tests.

It’s coal in their stocking with a side of superiority — and, ironically, extra plastic, steel or other resources.

When the SEC came up, Leach took aim at the league’s superiority.

While artificial neural networks performed poorly when they first came onto the stage in the 1950s, the availability of increasing amounts of computational power and training data eventually vindicated their superiority over traditional algorithms.

Pitch movement is just another arena of right-handed pitcher superiority.

This was later repurposed in Europe as an explanation for racial superiority, and the term “Aryan” came to define a white race.

Despite the vast military and financial superiority of Russia, most Ukrainians have not been tempted to go over to the other side.

A major problem is that this contact has been paternalistic and poisoned by the myth of racial superiority.

The joy in watching them has quickly morphed from disgust and amused gawking to occasionally smug superiority.

Still, Israel retains technological superiority and a GDP growing at 3.4 percent annually.

We are now so thoroughly convinced of the superiority of these engines that I have just begun another of larger size.

From this point of view, the superiority of the continental over the insular colonies was not to be doubted.

Her father, knowing her intellectual superiority, looked to her as his secretary to reply to all these letters.

Wherever there is arbitrary rule, there must be necessity, on the part of the dominant classes, superiority be assumed.

But Dante did not impose his language upon Italy by the sole superiority of his great poem.

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