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PREPOTENCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prepotency mean?
• PREPOTENCY (noun)
The noun PREPOTENCY has 1 sense:
1. the state of being predominant over others
Familiarity information: PREPOTENCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being predominant over others
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
predominance; predomination; prepotency
Hypernyms ("prepotency" is a kind of...):
ascendance; ascendancy; ascendence; ascendency; control; dominance (the state that exists when one person or group has power over another)
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