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ASCENDANCY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does ascendancy mean?

• ASCENDANCY (noun)
The noun ASCENDANCY has 1 sense:

1. the state that exists when one person or group has power over another

Familiarity information: ASCENDANCY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ASCENDANCY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The state that exists when one person or group has power over another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

ascendance; ascendancy; ascendence; ascendency; dominance; control

Context example:

her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her

Hypernyms ("ascendancy" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ascendancy"):

ascendant; ascendent (position or state of being dominant or in control)

domination; mastery; supremacy (power to dominate or defeat)

predominance; predomination; prepotency (the state of being predominant over others)

dominion; rule (dominance or power through legal authority)

regulation (the state of being controlled or governed)

absolutism; despotism; tyranny (dominance through threat of punishment and violence)

monopoly (exclusive control or possession of something)

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