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What’s curious is that Howard W. Overshown’s Prospero, played with a recessiveness consistent with a character most at home in his library, does not dominate the play.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2021

Patterns of inheritance in humans include autosomal dominance and recessiveness, X-linked dominance and recessiveness, incomplete dominance, codominance, and lethality.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Hemizygosity makes descriptions of dominance and recessiveness irrelevant for XY males.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

Pacino embellishes the part with his whole method-acting arsenal: facial tics, eccentric line readings, a kind of flamboyant recessiveness — sinking into his chair, dropping his hoarse voice to a barely audible whisper at times.

From Time • Dec. 11, 2012

But before taking it up it is as well to learn the real signification of recessiveness in the hybrids themselves.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de