Definitions for dominance

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dominance dom·i·nance

Spelling: [dom-uh-nuh ns]

IPA: /ˈdɒm ə nəns/

Dominance is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 472 anagrams from letters in dominance (acdeimnno).

Definitions for dominance

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 dominance

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

Examples for dominance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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