dominance

Meanings

• superior development of one side of the body
• 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"
• 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
• the power or right to give orders or make decisions

Synonyms

ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, authorisation, authority, authorization, control, laterality, potency, say-so