Superiority vs Dominant - What's the difference?
superiority | dominant |
the state of being superior
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(music) The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
(music) The triad built on the dominant tone.
(BDSM) The dominating partner in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
* 2011 , Jayne Rylon, Mistress's Master (page 65)
Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling.
* Macaulay
Predominant, common, prevalent, of greatest importance.
* 2009 , H. Stephen Stoker, General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry , page 10
As nouns the difference between superiority and dominant
is that superiority is the state of being superior while dominant is the fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.As an adjective dominant is
ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling.superiority
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Alternative forms
* superiourity (obsolete)Noun
(superiorities)- Many colleges want to achieve football superiority.
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Antonyms
* inferioritydominant
English
Noun
(en noun)- His story was a fable you told dominants in training to stress the importance of comprehending the depths of your submissive's needs.
Adjective
(en adjective)- The dominant party controlled the government.
- The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, but imperious, insolent, and cruel.
- The dominant plants of the Carboniferous were lycopods and early conifers.
- All other elements are mere "impurities" when their abundances are compared with those of these two dominant elements.