ASCENDENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ascendency mean? 

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

1. the state that exists when one person or group has power over another

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASCENDENCY (noun)

Sense 1

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; control; dominance

Context example:

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

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

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ascendency"):

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)

Derivation:

ascendent (most powerful or important or influential)

 Context examples 

It was my time to assume ascendency. My powers were in play and in force.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)