dominance

1. 1.

   superior development of one side of the body

   Synonymslaterality

   Broaderbodily property
2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymsascendanceascendenceascendancyascendencycontrol

   Broadercondition

   Narrowerascendantdominationpredominancedominionregulationabsolutismmonopoly
3. 3.

   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

   Broaderorganic phenomenon

   genetics

4. 4.

   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”

   Synonymsauthorityauthorizationauthorisationpotencysay-so

   Broadercontrol

   Narrowerpower of appointmentcarte blanchecommandimperiumlordshipmusclesovereignty

Other forms of dominance

plural

dominances·

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 dominance

What does dominance mean?

dominance means "superior development of one side of the body". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dominance?

dominance has 3 syllables: do-mi-nance. The stress falls on "do". In IPA it is /ˈdɑmənəns/.

What is another word for dominance?

Close synonyms include laterality, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency. 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 dominance a common word?

dominance is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dominance?

1 word rhymes with dominance. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.