dominance

Meanings

Plural: dominances

Noun

• superior development of one side of the body
• 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"
• 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
• the power or right to give orders or make decisions
• The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.
• Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.
• The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed.
• of an allele, the degree to which it expresses its phenotype when heterozygous, such as whether it is dominant or recessive.

Synonyms

ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, authorisation, authority, authorization, control, laterality, potency, say-so