ascendancy vs predominancy

ascendancy

noun
  • Supremacy; dominant control; the quality of being in the ascendant. 

  • A class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century 

  • A quantitative attribute of an ecosystem, defined as a function of the ecosystem's trophic network, and intended to indicate its ability to prevail against disturbance by virtue of its combined organization and size. 

predominancy

noun
  • Predominance. 

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