feeling of inferiority

collocation in English

meaningsoffeelingandinferiority

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feeling
noun
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/ˈfiː.lɪŋ/us
/ˈfiː.lɪŋ/
the fact of feeling ...
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inferiority
noun[U]
uk
/ɪnˌfɪə.riˈɒr.ə.ti/us
/ɪnˌfɪr.iˈɔːr.ə.t̬i/
the state of not being good, or not as good as someone or ...
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(Definition offeelingandinferiorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The common psychological disabilities that most of the older persons experience are : feeling of powerlessness,feelingofinferiority, depression, uselessness, isolation and reduced competence.
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It is, nevertheless, this identity that gives them afeelingofinferiority.
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It is difficult to seek out these people, but the point which should be made is that they also have afeelingofinferiority.
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This creates afeelingofinferiorityamong them, and depresses them.
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I believe, too, that one of the causes of it was a sort offeelingofinferioritycomplex.
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He will grow up with afeelingofinferioritycomplex which is bound to make itself felt somewhere.
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Sometimes there is a tremendous danger of giving children afeelingofinferioritycomplex.
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This is the cheapest way of sitting up all night and escaping from their original selves and their shyness and theirfeelingofinferiority.
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Such a situation immediately creates afeelingofinferiorityamong applicants.
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It is essential that thefeelingofinferiorityamong doctors should be dispelled as soon as possible.
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This in itself would do a great deal to correct thefeelingofinferiorityand sense of not being wanted which frustrates so many scientists and engineers today.
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In addition to this distress, the residue of the original, primaryfeelingofinferioritymay still haunt an adult.
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On the other hand, negative compensations do not, which results in a reinforcedfeelingofinferiority.
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Along with this feeling of powerlessness is a widespreadfeelingofinferiority, of personal unworthiness.
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For example, in anorexia nervosa the fictive final goal is to be perfectly thin (overcompensation on the basis of afeelingofinferiority).
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It reinforces in one afeelingofinferiorityand in the other a myth of superiority.
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The inferiority complex, in contrast, is an exaggeratedfeelingofinferiorityin which the individual hides their striving for superiority.
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But somehow the boys themselves seem to have afeelingofinferiority.
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But thefeelingofinferiorityis not a disease; it is rather a stimulant to healthy, normal striving and development.
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Thatfeelingofinferioritythat many of them were taught to feel...
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