dominance
[dom-uh-nuh ns]
- rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- the condition of being dominant.
- Psychology. the disposition of an individual to assert control in dealing with others.
- Animal Behavior. high status in a social group, usually acquired as the result of aggression, that involves the tendency to take priority in access to limited resources, as food, mates, or space.
- Neurology. the normal tendency for one side of the brain to be more important than the other in controlling certain functions, as speech and language.
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Also dom·i·nan·cy.
Origin of dominance
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Their church is nothing if not absolute, and dominancy is their aim.
Ireland as It IsRobert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
Dominancy within the human kind must be secured at all costs.
Science and Morals and Other EssaysBertram Coghill Alan Windle
True, the war was lost so far as any hope of winning European dominancy was concerned.
G. H. Q.Frank Fox
During its dominancy the victim respects neither law not convention; the goal is his only object.
Idling in ItalyJoseph Collins
The dominancy of heredity through these infinite varieties is sometimes very striking.
DactylographyHenry Faulds
dominance
- control; ascendancy
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Word Origin and History for dominancy
dominance
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dominance
(dŏm′ə-nəns)- The condition or state of being dominant.
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