The phrase "perceived superiority" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to the belief or opinion that one has superior qualities or abilities relative to others. For example, "Many people believe that having a prestigious degree gives them a perceived superiority over those without one."
NATO strategy was dependent on nuclear weapons as a counterbalance to the perceived superiority of Soviet conventional forces.
With 9 minutes 19 seconds left to play, Syracuse led by 57-42, a predictable situation considering Kent's absence and Syracuse's perceived superiority.
But the large majority of schools lose money on athletics, and the fact that some depend on sports income confirms, in monetary terms, the perceived superiority of athletics.
Are we just still suffering the hangover from that old outer borough inferiority complex, grasping at mythical straws from the past to shore us up against Manhattan's perceived superiority?
Much like the impassioned tug of war over Elián González, the child who was ultimately returned to his father in Cuba, the clash over Anna Mae pits the perceived superiority of American culture over that of another country.
The film's title comes from the phrase coined by writer Jack London to describe a white fighter who might step up to combat the monstrous black affront to the perceived superiority of the Caucasian race.
Chinese are touchy about perceived Western superiority, too.
But during the apartheid era, rugby developed as a masculine symbol of perceived white superiority.
It could be underdog status, perceived moral superiority, a downtrodden region, or decades of injustice.
As for their private lives, they came into focus, writer believes, precisely because of their perceived intelleclual superiority.
These class-specific knowledges reify the goodness of the 'Tuscan Experience' and the perceived nutritional superiority of the Italian-Mediterranean diet as a means to meet health, social, and emotional needs not thought to be fulfilled by a professional Western lifestyle.
