SUPREMACY

n. 1 transcendency, pre-eminence, superiority, ascendancy, excellence, primacy, peerlessness, matchlessness, incomparability, inimitability Colonialism depends on military supremacy 2 sovereignty, dominion, sway, mastery, control, dominance, (supreme or absolute) rule or authority, autarchy, omnipotence, hegemony They maintained their supremacy over the Iberian peninsula for centuries