absolutism vs dominance

dominance vs absolutism

absolutism and dominance both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
absolutism	Yes	No	No	No
dominance	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dominance is a hypernym of absolutism; that is, dominance is a word with a broader meaning than absolutism:

absolutism: dominance through threat of punishment and violence
dominance: the state that exists when one person or group has power over another

Other hypernyms of absolutism include ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control.

absolutism (noun)	dominance (noun)
the doctrine of an absolute being, often related to idealism in philosophy.	the power or right to give orders or make decisions
an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government.	superior development of one side of the body
a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)	the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not
dominance through threat of punishment and violence	the state that exists when one person or group has power over another

Difference between absolutism and dominance

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