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[ noun ] the quality of being superior
Synonyms Used in print (Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)I have often searched for a graphic way of impressing our superiority on those Americans who have doubts , and I think Mr._Jameson_Campaigne has done it well in his new book American_Might_and_Soviet_Myth . (Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)She had the opportunity that few clever women can resist , of showing her superiority in argument over a man . She could not resist the opportunity `` of showing her superiority in argument over a man '' which she had remarked as one of the `` feminine follies '' of Sara_Sullam ; and in her forthright way , Henrietta , who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think_of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '' , felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris_Jastrow took the slightest exception - he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair , as_well_as on the radical reforms of Dr._Wise of Hebrew_Union_College - until once , in sheer desperation , he wrote that he had given_up hope they would ever agree on anything . Related terms inferiority inferiority quality fineness first_class ingenuity first_water |
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[ noun ] displaying a sense of being better than others
Examples "he hated the white man's superiority and condescension" Used in print (Raymond J. Corsini et al., Roleplaying in Business...)He was told he displayed , for_example , a sense of superiority - and he answered : `` Well , I am supposed to know all the answers , are n't I '' ? Related terms |
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[ noun ] the quality of being a competitive advantage
Synonyms Used in print (John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)This nettled the children into the revelation of exact truth , a sacrifice of their secret superiority over grown people , but a victory in the wide fields of perpetration and illegitimate accomplishment . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits
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