supremacy
noun/suˈpɹɛməsi/
Etymology From supreme + -acy (a variant of -cy). Compare with supremity and New Latin suprematia.
1
Usually The quality of being supreme.
2
Usually Power over all others.
3
In compounds, Usually 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.2004, Andrew Michael Manis, Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century, Mercer University Press, →ISBN, page 139:
4
In compounds, Usually A state of privilege for a specified group relative to other people in society.