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dominance
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun dominance has 4 senses
- dominance(n = noun.attribute) laterality - superior development of one side of the body; Array is a kind of bodily property
- dominance(n = noun.state) ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control - the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her" is a kind of condition, status
- dominance(n = noun.phenomenon) Array - the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not; Array is a kind of organic phenomenon
- dominance(n = noun.attribute) authorisation, authority, authorization, potency, say-so - the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the state" has particulars: power of appointment, carte blanche, command, imperium, lordship, muscle, sovereignty
has particulars: ascendant, ascendent, domination, mastery, supremacy, predominance, predomination, prepotency, dominion, rule, regulation, absolutism, despotism, tyranny, monopoly
Derived forms adjective dominant1, verb dominate2
Derived form adjective dominant2
is a kind of control
Derived form verb dominate3
THESAURUS
dominance
ascendance, ascendancy, authority, balance of power, charisma, charm, clout, consequence, control, credit, dominancy, domination, dominion, effect, eminence, eminent domain, enchantment, esteem, favor, force, good feeling, hold, importance, incidental power, influence, influentiality, insinuation, leadership, leverage, magnetism, masterdom, mastery, moment, overlordship, personality, persuasion, potency, power, predominance, predominancy, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, pressure, prestige, primacy, principality, purchase, reign, repute, rule, say, sovereignty, suasion, subtle influence, suggestion, superiority, supremacy, suzerainship, suzerainty, sway, upper hand, weight, whip handROGET THESAURUS
dominance
Influence
N influence, importance, weight, pressure, preponderance, prevalence, sway, predominance, predominancy, ascendency, dominance, reign, control, domination, pull, authority, capability, effect, interest, synergy (cooperation), footing, purchase, play, leverage, vantage ground, tower of strength, host in himself, protection, patronage, auspices, influential, effective, important, weighty, prevailing, prevalent, rife, rampant, dominant, regnant, predominant, in the ascendant, hegemonical, with telling effect, tel maure tel valet.
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