dominance
- 1Having more power or control than the people or groups around you.
Like being the boss who gets to tell everyone else what to do.
The big company kept its dominance over smaller shops for years.
He enjoyed his dominance on the chessboard, winning every match.
Similarcontrol, power, authority, ascendancy, mastery
Oppositesubmission, subordination, subservience
- 2Being the most powerful or most important thing of its kind.
Like being the number one choice that everyone reaches for first.
Cotton's dominance as a crop shaped the whole region's economy.
For a while, vinyl records lost their dominance to streaming.
Similarsupremacy, preeminence, predominance, ascendancy, primacy
Oppositeinferiority, subordination
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- 3How strongly one form of a gene shows up when it is paired with a different form.
Like one paint color being strong enough to hide another when you mix them.
The allele for brown eyes shows strong dominance over the one for blue.
Because of dominance, a single copy of the gene was enough to change the flower's color.
Oppositerecessiveness
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- 4When one side of the body, or one of two paired organs, is stronger or used more than the other.
Like always reaching for things with your stronger hand without thinking about it.
Most people have right-hand dominance and write with that hand.
Her left-eye dominance affected how she aimed the camera.
Similarpreference, laterality
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Origin
It comes from the word "dominant" plus the ending "-ance."