superiority
noun
, ˌsü-, -ˈär-\
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Synonyms & Antonyms for superiority
Synonyms
arrogance, assumption, bumptiousness, consequence, haughtiness, hauteur, high horse, huffiness, imperiousness, loftiness, lordliness, masterfulness, peremptoriness, pomposity, pompousness, presumptuousness, pretense (or pretence), pretension, pretentiousness, self-consequence, self-importance, superciliousness, toploftiness
Antonyms
humility, modesty, unassumingness, unpretentiousness
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Stoddard cited Weismann’s theory, which was profound and ahead of its time, and used it to advance the perverse and unfounded idea of the superiority of Nordic germ-plasm. — Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker, "The Mail," 1 Sep. 2019 The company made sure to point out the superiority of Radeon Image Sharpening over Nvidia’s DLSS. — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, "Nvidia's massive Gamescom Game Ready driver improves performance, latency and sharpness," 20 Aug. 2019 There's something about wearing noise-canceling headphones that adds an air of superiority. — Courtney Campbell, USA TODAY, "Sony's best noise-canceling headphones are at their lowest price ever," 21 July 2019 Since everyone saw the world through the prism of their own culture, Melville believed, no society could claim moral superiority over another. — The Economist, "Born 200 years ago, Herman Melville was globalisation’s first great bard," 18 July 2019 The promise of superiority is all the more appealing for a population in some form of distress. — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, "Look to Italy to understand the dangers of Trump’s racist tweets," 17 July 2019 Her images are a critique of pseudo-scientific studies in 19th- and early 20th-centuries that categorized racial groups according to their physiognomy as a way to assert the superiority of whites. — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, "Transformer Station’s “I Sing the Body’’ surveys photographic interpretation of the human form," 14 July 2019 What distinguished Voltaire from other Europeans was not his assumptions about the superiority of their stock but his eloquent opposition to slavery and colonialism. — Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books, "Dialectics of Enlightenment," 9 May 2019 Morton's belief in the racial superiority of Caucasians influenced his interpretation of his data; Tiedemann's staunch anti-slavery views did the same for the analysis of his data. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, "There’s new evidence confirming bias of the “father of scientific racism”," 4 Oct. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'superiority.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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