ascendence

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsdominanceascendanceascendancyascendencycontrol

   Broadercondition

   Narrowerascendantdominationpredominancedominionregulationabsolutismmonopoly

Other forms of ascendence

plural

ascendences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ascendence

What does ascendence mean?

ascendence means "the state that exists when one person or group has power over another".

How many syllables are in ascendence?

ascendence has 3 syllables: a-scen-dence. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for ascendence?

Close synonyms include dominance, ascendance, ascendancy, ascendency, control. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ascendence a common word?

ascendence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.