Associations to the word «Prepotency»

Wiktionary

PREPOTENCY, noun. The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.
PREPOTENCY, noun. (biology) The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring.

Dictionary definition

PREPOTENCY, noun. The state of being predominant over others.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca