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Definition of dominance :
Alt. of Dominancy
Synonyms:
controller, restraint, dictum, assurance, strength, ascendancy, agency, potential, mandate, sureness, preponderancy, ascendence, control condition, potency, handedness, domination, authorization, predominance, pronouncement, prepotency, preponderance, paramountcy, lateralisation, authority, potence, ascendency, control, sanction, ascendance, self-assurance, lateralization, command, federal agency, laterality, say-so, sway, over, rule, effectiveness, confidence, government agency, empowerment, bureau, reign, dominion, self-confidence, potentiality, mastery, office, authorisation
superiority (part of speech: noun)
incomparability, championship, sovereignty, preeminence, seniority, superiority, eminence, excellence, supremacy
Usage examples:
- It will be an indefinable 'somehow, ' a compound of intellectual dominance and emotional sway. - "A Novelist on Novels", W. L. George.
- Downing Street is as attractive as the oak- leaves of the field- marshal; York and Canterbury as pleasant as a dominance in Lombard Street or Burlington House. - "Success (Second Edition)", Max Aitken Beaverbrook.
- A shameful equality and a fatal tranquillity, no doubt; but such as peoples are sometimes contented with under the dominance of certain circumstances, or in the last gasp of their existence. - "A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times Volume I. of VI.", Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot.
