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PREPOTENCY

Dictionary entry overview: What does prepotency mean?

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

1. the state of being predominant over others

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

Dictionary entry details

• PREPOTENCY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The state of being predominant over others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

predominance; predomination; prepotency

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

ascendance; ascendancy; ascendence; ascendency; control; dominance (the state that exists when one person or group has power over another)

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