dominance

Nouns

  • (n) superior development of one side of the body laterality,
  • (n) 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
    ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control,
  • (n) 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
  • (n) 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
    authority, potency, authorisation, authorization, say-so,

Synonyms

laterality ascendance ascendancy ascendence ascendency control authority potency authorisation authorization say-so

Words of close approximity

dominant