PRIMACY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does primacy mean? 

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

1. the state of being first in importance

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRIMACY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being first in importance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

grandness; importance (a prominent status)

 Context examples 

In dim ways he recognised in man the animal that had fought itself to primacy over the other animals of the Wild.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His primacy was savage, and savagely he ruled, administering justice with a club, punishing transgression with the pain of a blow, and rewarding merit, not by kindness, but by withholding a blow.

(White Fang, by Jack London)