noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The quality of being supreme. uncountable, usually
2. 2
   power to dominate or defeat wordnet
3. 3
   Power over all others. uncountable, usually
4. 4
   The ideology that a specified group is superior to others or should have supreme power over them. in-compounds, uncountable, usually

   "white supremacy"

5. 5
   A state of privilege for a specified group relative to other people in society. in-compounds, uncountable, usually

Synonyms

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dominationaccentacmeascendanceascendancyascendant

Antonyms

All antonyms

abasement

Example

More examples

"Are we not ourselves creating our successors in the supremacy of the earth?"

Etymology

From supreme + -acy (a variant of -cy). Compare with supremity and New Latin suprematia.

Related phrases

air supremacyblack supremacypapal supremacyquantum supremacystraight supremacywhite supremacywoke supremacy

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