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Überlegenheit — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • ascendancy noun The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
  • preponderance noun Superiority in amount or number; the bulk or majority; also, a large amount or number; an abundance, a profusion.
  • 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

  1. noun The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
  2. 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.
  3. noun A quantitative attribute of an ecosystem, defined as a function of the ecosystem's trophic network, and intended to indicate its ability to prevail against disturbance by virtue of its combined organization and size.

preponderance — full definition

  1. noun Superiority in amount or number; the bulk or majority; also, a large amount or number; an abundance, a profusion.
  2. noun Superiority of influence, power, a quality, etc.; an outweighing, predominance, pre-eminence.
  3. noun Greater physical weight.
  4. noun The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.

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