ASCENDANCY
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)
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)
