prepotency

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.
2. noun The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring.

Similar words

prepotence prepollence prepollency precompetence precellency preponderation prefidence pre-eminence precocity predisponency

Often followed by

of in is and or for as over to

Word family

prepotencies