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Superiority vs Precellency - What's the difference?

superiority | precellency |

As nouns the difference between superiority and precellency

is that superiority is the state of being superior while precellency is (obsolete) excellence, superiority, preeminence.

superiority

English

Alternative forms

* superiourity (obsolete)

Noun

(superiorities)
  • the state of being superior
    • Many colleges want to achieve football superiority.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Chelsea will point to that victory margin as confirmation of their superiority - but Spurs will complain their hopes of turning the game around were damaged fatally by Atkinson's decision.}}

    Antonyms

    * inferiority

    precellency

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) excellence, superiority, preeminence
  • * 1662 , , p. 1:
    • then be put upon so much immodesty my self as to speak anything that may seem to give it any precellency above what is already extant in the world about the same matter.

    Synonyms

    * precellence