- superiority
- nounADJECTIVE▪ absolute, overwhelming▪ effortless▪
Driving the Jaguar gave him a feeling of effortless superiority.
▪ inherent, innate, natural▪ biological, cultural, intellectual, moral, numerical, physical, racial, social, technical, technological▪a discredited ideology of racial superiority
▪ male, white▪his air of male superiority
▪an ideology of white superiority
▪ air, military, navalVERB + SUPERIORITY▪ achieve, establish▪the enemy's attempts to establish air superiority
▪ enjoy, have▪For a long time France enjoyed overwhelming superiority in this field.
▪ confirm, convince sb of, demonstrate, prove, show, underline (esp. BrE)▪ maintain▪ assert, assume, claim, imply▪The use of the words ‘modern’ and ‘old’ is not meant to imply the superiority of one over the other.
▪ acknowledge▪Their team has had to acknowledge Australia's superiority in recent years.
SUPERIORITY + NOUN▪ complex▪the perception that they have a superiority complex
PREPOSITION▪ superiority in▪We should make use of our superiority in numbers.
▪ superiority over▪the company's clear technological superiority over its rivals
▪ superiority to▪The settlers remained convinced of their superiority to the native population.
PHRASES▪ an air of superiority▪He spoke with an air of superiority.
▪ a feeling of superiority, a sense of superiority
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
