dominance vs absolutism

absolutism vs dominance

dominance and absolutism both are nouns.

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

As nouns, absolutism is a hyponym of dominance; that is, absolutism is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dominance:

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

Other hyponyms of dominance include ascendant, ascendent, domination, mastery, supremacy, predominance, predomination, prepotency, dominion, rule, regulation, despotism, tyranny, monopoly.

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

Difference between dominance and absolutism

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