supremacy

From supreme +‎ -acy (a variant of -cy). Compare with supremity and New Latin suprematia.

• IPA^(key): /suˈpɹɛməsi/

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• Hyphenation: su‧prem‧a‧cy

supremacy (usually uncountable, plural supremacies)

1. The quality of being supreme.
2. Power over all others.
3. (in combination) The ideology that a specified group is superior to others or should have supreme power over them.

   white supremacy

   • 2004, Andrew Michael Manis, Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century, Mercer University Press, →ISBN, page 139:

     Fighting a war against Hitler's Nazi ideology, with its doctrine of Aryan supremacy and its "final solution" to protect against an "inferior people," accentuated the final irony of an America fighting a racist ideology while trying to keep its own racist ideology intact.

4. (in combination) A state of privilege for a specified group relative to other people in society.

• supremacist
• supremacism

• → French: suprématie
  • → Galician: supremacía
  • → Italian: supremazia
  • → Polish: supremacja
  • → Portuguese: supremacia
  • → Romanian: supremație
  • → Spanish: supremacía

• “supremacy”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “supremacy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.