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dominance
Overview of noun dominance
The noun dominance has 4 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (4) laterality, dominance -- (superior development of one side of the body)
2. (3) dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control -- (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")
3. dominance -- (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)
4. authority, authorization, authorisation, potency, dominance, say-so -- (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/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dominance
4 senses of dominance
Sense 1
laterality, dominance
=> bodily property
=> property
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control
=> condition, status
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
dominance
=> organic phenomenon
=> natural phenomenon
=> phenomenon
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 4
authority, authorization, authorisation, potency, dominance, say-so
=> control
=> power, powerfulness
=> quality
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun dominance
2 of 4 senses of dominance
Sense 2
dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control
=> ascendant, ascendent
=> domination, mastery, supremacy
=> predominance, predomination, prepotency
=> dominion, rule
=> regulation
=> absolutism, tyranny, despotism
=> monopoly
Sense 4
authority, authorization, authorisation, potency, dominance, say-so
=> power of appointment
=> carte blanche
=> command
=> imperium
=> lordship
=> muscle
=> sovereignty
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dominance
4 senses of dominance
Sense 1
laterality, dominance
=> bodily property
Sense 2
dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control
=> condition, status
Sense 3
dominance
=> organic phenomenon
Sense 4
authority, authorization, authorisation, potency, dominance, say-so
=> control
Antonyms of noun dominance
Member Holonyms of noun dominance
Substance Holonyms of noun dominance
Part Holonyms of noun dominance
Member Meronyms of noun dominance
Substance Meronyms of noun dominance
Part Meronyms of noun dominance
Meronyms of noun dominance
Holonyms of noun dominance
Attributes of noun dominance
Derived Forms of noun dominance
3 of 4 senses of dominance
Sense 2
dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control
RELATED TO>(adj) dominant#1
=> dominant
RELATED TO>(verb) dominate#2
=> dominate
Sense 3
dominance
RELATED TO>(adj) dominant#2
=> dominant
Sense 4
authority, authorization, authorisation, potency, dominance, say-so
RELATED TO>(verb) dominate#3
=> dominate, master
Domain of noun dominance
1 of 4 senses of dominance
Sense 3
dominance
TOPIC>(noun) genetics#1, genetic science#1
Domain Terms of noun dominance
Familiarity of noun dominance
dominance used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun dominance
4 senses of dominance
Sense 1
laterality, dominance
> bodily property
=> bipedalism
=> laterality, dominance
=> physique, build, body-build, habitus
=> fatness, fat, blubber, avoirdupois
=> leanness, thinness, spareness
=> stature, height
=> carriage, bearing, posture
=> physiology
=> physiological property
=> position, posture, attitude
Sense 2
dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control
> condition, status
=> anchorage
=> health
=> mode
=> niche, ecological niche
=> noise conditions
=> participation, involvement
=> prepossession
=> regularization, regularisation
=> saturation
=> silence
=> situation, position
=> ski conditions
=> nomination
=> standardization, standardisation
=> stigmatism
=> astigmatism, astigmia
=> way
=> circumstance
=> homelessness
=> reinstatement
=> place
=> celibacy
=> virginity
=> innocence
=> purity, pureness, sinlessness, innocence, whiteness
=> guilt, guiltiness
=> encapsulation
=> polarization, polarisation
=> pathological state
=> disorder, upset
=> hyalinization, hyalinisation
=> vacuolization, vacuolisation, vacuolation
=> protuberance
=> curvature
=> psychological state, mental state
=> difficulty
=> improvement, melioration
=> decline, declination
=> ennoblement
=> dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control
=> comfort, comfortableness
=> discomfort, uncomfortableness
=> need, demand
=> fullness
=> emptiness
=> nakedness, nudity, nudeness
=> hairlessness, depilation
=> dishabille, deshabille
=> hopefulness
=> despair, desperation
=> purity, pureness
=> impurity, impureness
=> financial condition, economic condition
=> sanitary condition
=> tilth
=> orderliness, order
=> disorderliness, disorder
=> normality, normalcy
=> abnormality, abnormalcy, abnormal condition
=> lactosuria
=> environmental condition
=> climate, mood
=> atmosphere, ambiance, ambience
=> unsusceptibility, immunity
=> immunity, resistance
=> subservience
=> susceptibility, susceptibleness
=> wetness
=> dryness, waterlessness, xerotes
=> safety
=> danger
=> tension, tensity, tenseness, tautness
=> atonicity, atony, atonia, amyotonia
=> laxness, laxity
=> repair
=> soundness
=> mutism, muteness
=> eye condition
=> unsoundness
=> impropriety
=> iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark
=> light, illumination
=> malady
=> serration
=> absolution
=> automation
=> brutalization, brutalisation
=> condemnation
=> deification
=> diversification
=> exoneration
=> facilitation
=> frizz
=> fruition
=> hospitalization
=> identification
=> impaction
=> ionization, ionisation
=> irradiation
=> leakiness
=> lubrication
=> mechanization, mechanisation
=> motivation
=> mummification
=> preservation
=> prognathism
=> rustication
=> rustiness
=> scandalization, scandalisation
=> submission
=> urbanization, urbanisation
Sense 3
dominance
> organic phenomenon
=> dominance
=> abiogenesis, autogenesis, autogeny, spontaneous generation
=> alternation of generations, heterogenesis, xenogenesis
=> annual ring, growth ring
=> bioelectricity
=> circulation
=> cyclosis, streaming
=> death
=> decay, decomposition
=> dehiscence
=> desquamation, peeling, shedding
=> exfoliation
=> diapedesis
=> facilitation
=> food chain
=> food pyramid
=> food web, food cycle
=> gene expression
=> histocompatibility
=> life
=> life cycle
=> pleomorphism
=> polymorphism
=> recognition
=> rejection
=> rejuvenation, greening
=> sex linkage
Sense 4
authority, authorization, authorisation, potency, dominance, say-so
> control
=> authority, authorization, authorisation, potency, dominance, say-so
=> hold
=> iron fist
=> rein
Meronyms of noun dominance
4 senses of dominance
Holonyms of noun dominance
Grep of noun dominance
dominance
predominance
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