supremacy
noun
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Pronunciation: /suˈpɹɛməsi/
noun
Etymology: From supreme + -acy (a variant of -cy). Compare with supremity and New Latin suprematia.
- The quality of being supreme.
- Power over all others.
- 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.”
- A state of privilege for a specified group relative to other people in society.