Noun

The status of being preeminent, dominant or ascendant.

High importance; superiority.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

, author=Philip E. Mirowski , title=Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits , volume=100, issue=1, page=87 , magazine= citation , passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}

Noun

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practice of viewing the world from a European perspective, with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the preeminence of European culture