dominance

Academic Word List, sublist 3.

About 8.77 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.
2. noun Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.
3. noun A feeling of power and capacity to act or control another.
4. noun The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed.
5. noun of an allele, the degree to which it expresses its phenotype when heterozygous, such as whether it is dominant or recessive.

Similar words

ascendancy authority control say-so ascendance ascendency ascendence laterality domination mastery

Often followed by

of in and over is by was or as

Word family

dominances dominant dominate dominated dominates dominating domination