The category of higher substance that in itself consumes more of lower level categories and in itself includes several numbers of subjects. a high-level class that subsumes a number of fundamental-level classes.
SUPERORDINATE CATEGORY: ""Human being" is superordinate category to "black people", "white people", "Asian people"."
Cite this page: N., Sam M.S., "SUPERORDINATE CATEGORY," in PsychologyDictionary.org, April 13, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/superordinate-category/ (accessed March 21, 2023).
