Definitions for dominances

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dominances dom·i·nance

Spelling: [dom-uh-nuh ns]

IPA: /ˈdɒm ə nəns/

Dominances is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 911 anagrams from letters in dominances (acdeimnnos).

Definitions for dominances

noun

1. rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
2. the condition of being dominant.
3. Psychology. the disposition of an individual to assert control in dealing with others.
4. Animal Behavior. high status in a social group, usually acquired as the result of aggression, that involves the tendency to take priority in access to limited resources, as food, mates, or space.
5. Neurology. the normal tendency for one side of the brain to be more important than the other in controlling certain functions, as speech and language.

Origin of dominances

First recorded in 1810-20; domin(ant) + -ance

Examples for dominances

Others are drawn to it because of the sense of dominance they think the drink provides.

His dominance of the night before, in the library, had returned.

He was the symbol of a race abruptly exalted from inferiority to dominance.

The quest for dominance of the Ukraine, either by Russia or NATO has been going on for a long time now.

But that, in their eras of dominance, they were almost as firmly believed in as if they had been proved.

This year, however, Democratic dominance at pounding the pavement might finally be challenged.

And how the nothingness of these was made more emphatic by the dominance of that!

It consists in the dominance of the Will over all conscious states.

One of the big shifts that Yuan notes is the rise and dominance of technology.

Assertions of dominance over the wards, Dr. Edwards, and the other officers are pretty much all she has left.