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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne