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supremacy

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /suˈpɹɛməsi/

noun

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

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

    “white supremacy”

    “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. A state of privilege for a specified group relative to other people in society.