Definition of dominance

Scrabble & Words with friends points


  • dominance is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 14
  • dominance is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 14
  • dominance is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 18

Definition of dominance


  • the state that exists when one person or group has power over another (noun)

    Examples

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

    Synonyms

    1. ascendance
    2. ascendancy
    3. ascendence
    4. ascendency
    5. control
  • superior development of one side of the body (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. laterality
  • the power or right to give orders or make decisions (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. authorisation
    2. authority
    3. authorization
    4. potency
    5. say-so
  • 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 (noun)

See definition of dominance in Merriam Webster