Ascendency

Definition: Ascendency

Ascendency

Noun

1. The state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her".

Date "ascendency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Ascendency

Synonyms: ascendance (n), ascendancy (n), ascendence (n), control (n), dominance (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Influence	Noun: influence; importance; weight, pressure, preponderance, prevalence, sway; predominance, predominancy; ascendency; dominance, reign; control, domination, pull; authority; capability; (power); effect; interest.
Power	Ascendency, sway, control; prepotency, prepollence; almightiness, omnipotence; authority; strength.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ascendency

English words defined with "ascendency": Dominancy ♦ Inflential. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ascendency": Advancement. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	African Capitalism : The Struggle for Ascendency (reference) West over sea : reminders of Norse ascendency from Shetland to Dublin (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Ascendency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ascendency" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	12	101,599

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "ascendency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pushtet (arm, ascendancy, attribution, Caesar, clout, clutches, jurisdiction, nomocracy, power, reign), epërsi (advantage, ascendancy, distinction, edge, excellence, excellency, pre eminence, predominance, preponderance, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, vantage, weight). (various references)

Arabic		‏سطوة (ascendancy, sway). (various references)

Farsi		فراز (Accolade, Altitude, Ascent, Loft, Phrase), مزیت (Advantage, Excellence, Preference, Prepayment, Privilege, Profit, Vantage), تفوق (Advantage, Excellence, Influence, Predominance, Prevalence, Supremacy, Vantage), تعالی (Eminence, Sublimity), سلطه (Mastery, Yoke), علو (Excellency, Predominance), استیلا (Invasion), بالا (Aloft, Atop, Overhead, Up, Upside). (various references)

French		ascension (ascension, ascent, place of ascent). (various references)

German		Aufstieg (advancement, ascension, ascent, climb, promotion, rise, way up). (various references)

Greek		κυριαρχία (command, domain, domination, dominion, reign, sovereignty, supremacy). (various references)

Hungarian		fölény (advantage, ascendancy, dominance, mastery, predomination, prepotency, pull, superiority, supremacy, vantage). (various references)

Italian		ascendente (ancestor, ascendancy, ascendant, ascending, ascensions, assurgent, hold, influence, rising, soaring, up, upgrade, upward). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		興起 (aroused energy, high-spirited action, rise). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"うき (aroused energy, bad breath, brightness, broad gauge, chance, conceited, discipline, easygoing, final, fragrance, good opportunity, high class, high-spirited action, ideal time, Imperial era, inquisitiveness, intimation, latter period, law and order, optimistic, postscript, public institution, Red Flag, rise, scale, school discipline, school flag, school regulations, splendour). (various references)

Pig Latin		ascendencyay

Romanian		autoritate (authorities, authority, command, control, credit, cropper, faculty, force, governance, government, hold, importance, influence, jurisdiction, lordship, masterdom, mastery, power, rulership). (various references)

Russian		власть (ascendancy, attribution, authority, clutch, control, domination, governance, grip, gripe, hand, helm, hold, mastery, power, sway). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ascendancy. (various references)

Turkish		itibar (altitude, ascendancy, authority, consideration, credit, dignity, effectiveness, eminence, eminency, esteem, estimation, face, importance, odor, odour, prestige, regard, reputation, respectability, standing, weight), hüküm sürme (ascendancy, suzerainty), egemenlik (ascendancy, dominance, domination, hegemony, imperium, mastery, Raj, reign, rule, sovereignty, supremacy, sway), üstünlük (advantage, altitude, ascendancy, beat, championship, class, distinction, dominance, edge, eligibility, excellence, head start, hegemony, lordship, mastery, odds, overweight, pre eminence, precedence, predominance, preponderance, primacy, spirit, supereminence, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, whip hand). (various references)

Vietnamese		uy thế (ascendancy, ascendant, ascendent), uy lực (ascendancy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ascendency" (pronounced use"ndunsē)
9	u s e" n d u n s ē	ascendancy.
7	-e" n d u n s ē	dependency, tendency.
6	-n d u n s ē	despondency, redundancy.
5	-d u n s ē	presidency, residency, stridency.
4	-u n s ē	absorbency, accountancy, agency, buoyancy, clemency, cogency, competency, complacency, Conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, consultancy, contingency, counterinsurgency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, discrepancy, dormancy, efficiency, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, immunodeficiency, incompetency, inconsistency, inconstancy, incumbency, indecency, inefficiency, infancy, infrequency, insolvency, insurgency, interagency, irrelevancy, latency, leniency, malignancy, militancy, nonemergency, occupancy, poignancy, potency, pregnancy, proficiency, regency, relevancy, resiliency, solvency, stringency, sufficiency, tenancy, transparency, truancy, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy, vibrancy.
3	-n s ē	bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-n-n-s-y"
	-2 letters: cadences, cayenned, cayennes, nascence, nascency.
	-3 letters: accedes, cadence, cadency, cayenne, decanes, decency, encased, enneads, scanned.
	-4 letters: accede, ascend, canned, ceased, censed, cycads, dances, decane, decays, encase, ennead, nances, nancys, seance, seneca, synced, yeaned, yenned.
	-5 letters: acned, acnes, aedes, cades, candy, caned, canes, canny, cased, cease, cedes, cense, cyans, cycad, cycas, daces, dance, deans, decay.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-n-n-s-y"
	+3 letters: transcendency.
	+4 letters: incandescently.
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