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DOMINANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Superior development of one side of the body
Synonyms:
dominance; laterality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("dominance" is a kind of...):
bodily property (an attribute of the body)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The power or right to give orders or make decisions
Example:
a place of potency in the state
Synonyms:
authorisation; authority; authorization; dominance; potency; say-so
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("dominance" is a kind of...):
control (power to direct or determine)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dominance"):
power of appointment (authority given (in a will or deed) by a donor to a donee to appoint the beneficiaries of the donor's property)
carte blanche (complete freedom or authority to act)
command (the power or authority to command)
imperium (supreme authority; absolute dominion)
lordship (the authority of a lord)
muscle (authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way))
sovereignty (the authority of a state to govern another state)
Derivation:
dominate (have dominance or the power to defeat over)
Sense 3
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("dominance" is a kind of...):
organic phenomenon ((biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals)
Domain category:
genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)
Derivation:
dominant ((of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The state that exists when one person or group has power over another
Example:
her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her
Synonyms:
ascendance; ascendancy; ascendence; ascendency; control; dominance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("dominance" is a kind of...):
condition; status (a state at a particular time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dominance"):
ascendant; ascendent (position or state of being dominant or in control)
domination; mastery; supremacy (power to dominate or defeat)
predominance; predomination; prepotency (the state of being predominant over others)
dominion; rule (dominance or power through legal authority)
regulation (the state of being controlled or governed)
absolutism; despotism; tyranny (dominance through threat of punishment and violence)
monopoly (exclusive control or possession of something)
Derivation:
dominant (exercising influence or control)
dominate (be in control)
