superiority

Other forms of superiority

plural

superiorities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about superiority

What does superiority mean?

superiority means "the quality of being superior". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in superiority?

superiority has 6 syllables: su-pe-ri-o-ri-ty. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˌsupɪɹiˈɔɹɪti/.

What is another word for superiority?

Close synonyms include high quality, favorable position, favourable position, transcendence, transcendency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of superiority?

The recorded antonyms are inferiority.

Is superiority a common word?

superiority is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.