What is another word for dominance?

Synonyms for dominance
dom·i·nance

This thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word dominance.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. dominance

    Synonyms:
    lordship, mastery, superiority, preponderance, prevalence

    Antonyms:
    inferiority, subjection, serve, tude, weakness, inprevalence, minority

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. laterality, dominancenoun

    superior development of one side of the body

    Synonyms:
    potency, lateralization, handedness, authorisation, laterality, ascendancy, authority, say-so, ascendency, ascendance, lateralisation, control, ascendence, authorization

  2. dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, controlnoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    controller, laterality, restraint, ascendance, authorization, mastery, control, say-so, ascendency, control condition, potency, command, authority, ascendancy, ascendence, authorisation

  3. dominancenoun

    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

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

  4. authority, authorization, authorisation, potency, dominance, say-sonoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    potence, potency, government agency, potentiality, federal agency, assurance, ascendance, authorization, ascendency, control, strength, effectiveness, self-confidence, laterality, potential, say-so, self-assurance, agency, dictum, ascendancy, sanction, sureness, confidence, bureau, office, authority, empowerment, ascendence, authorisation, mandate, pronouncement

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. dominance

    Synonyms:
    Neurology Cerebral dominance

How to pronounce dominance?

How to say dominance in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#241office
#333control
#910domain
#1011agency
#1224potential
#1362command
#1431authority
#2814strength
#2973bureau
#3355confidence
#3896controller
#4603effectiveness
#5434assurance
#6088authorization
#9882mandate
#10897prevalence
#10993domination
#14290empowerment
#15035restraint
#15799dominance
#16770mastery
#19712sanction
#19888authorisation
#22236superiority
#22990potency
#24192supremacy
#35445hegemony
#38913preponderance
#43339lordship
#55971predominance
#58263dictum
#62732ascendancy
#64197pronouncement
#79217handedness
#86131potentiality
#116981laterality
#146539predominating
#159963lateralization
#162551ascendance
#193264ascendency
#234524sureness

How to use dominance in a sentence?

  1. Paul Bernhardt:

    Sometimes, the dominance is aggressive in style, though usually not, more often, it's loud, brash behavior or other displays that exhibit a feeling of status gain.

  2. William Schaffner:

    We've had the dominance of H1N1 yield to now a dominance or at least an equivalence of H3N2, which means that the strain that causes more severe disease is actually producing a substantial amount of late season influenza this year.

  3. Pete Stauber:

    Unleashing American energy and mineral dominance will be a priority of the Republican majority, and it starts with real permitting reforming, especially for mining, my Permitting for Mining Needs Act will improve our permitting process and limit frivolous litigation.

  4. Kit Opie:

    This happens when they don’t know each other, after a while they fall into a dominance hierarchy with an alpha male but if they don’t know each other then there is often aggression while they establish that.

  5. Novak Djokovic:

    The dominance of first of all Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal over the years was fantastic. Then Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic, we got into the mix and us four have been winning most of the big events in the last six, seven, eight years, now it's normal to expect that there is a new generation of players, younger players that are right at the top like Kei Nishikori, Milos Raonic,( Grigor) Dimitrov who have the quality to win against the best and they have done that.


Translations for dominance

From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary

Get even more translations for dominance »

Translation

Find a translation for the dominance synonym in other languages:

Select another language:

  • - Select -
  • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
  • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Esperanto (Esperanto)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • العربية (Arabic)
  • Français (French)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • עברית (Hebrew)
  • Gaeilge (Irish)
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • اردو (Urdu)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • தமிழ் (Tamil)
  • Türkçe (Turkish)
  • తెలుగు (Telugu)
  • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Românește (Romanian)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • Latinum (Latin)
  • Svenska (Swedish)
  • Dansk (Danish)
  • Suomi (Finnish)
  • فارسی (Persian)
  • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
  • հայերեն (Armenian)
  • Norsk (Norwegian)
  • English (English)

Citation

Use the citation below to add these synonyms to your bibliography:

Style:MLAChicagoAPA

"dominance." Synonyms.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 18 Mar. 2024. <https://www.synonyms.com/synonym/dominance>.

Discuss these dominance synonyms with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good synonym for dominance?

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant synonyms for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant synonyms for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Browse Synonyms.com

    Quiz

    Are you a human thesaurus?

    »
    Which of the following words is not a synonym of the others?
    A hereditary
    B genetic
    C maladaptive
    D transmissible

    Nearby & related entries:

    Alternative searches for dominance: