Überlegenheit — meaning in English
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English meaning
- ascendancy noun A position of dominant power or control over others.
- preponderance noun A greater amount or number of something; the larger part of a group.
- superiority noun The state or quality of being better, higher-ranking, or more advanced than others.
Senses
Überlegenheit is used for these senses in English:
- ascendancy The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
- preponderance Superiority of influence, power, a quality, etc.; an outweighing, predominance, pre-eminence.
- superiority The state of being superior.
ascendancy — full definition
- noun A position of dominant power or control over others.
- noun Ellipsis of Protestant Ascendancy, a class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century.
- noun A measure of an ecosystem's ability to withstand disturbance, based on the size and structure of its network of feeding relationships.
preponderance — full definition
- noun A greater amount or number of something; the larger part of a group.
- noun A greater degree of power, influence or importance than anything else involved.
- noun The state of weighing more than something else.
- noun The extra weight at the back of a cannon, behind its pivot points, compared with the front.
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