primacy
Academic Word List, sublist 5.
About 2.77 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, preference etc.
establish the primacy of something
- noun Excellence; supremacy.
- noun The office, rank, or character of a primate (chief ecclesiastical dignity in a church).
- noun The office or dignity of an archbishop.
Similar words
primary priority precedence prevalence importance paramount preeminence paramountcy salience supremacy
Often followed by
of in to and over is effect was as
Word family
primacies prime
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