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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | superiority |
| Synonyms: | arete, class, distinction, eminence, excellency, fineness, goodness, greatness, high quality, merit, perfection, preeminence, purity, quality, superbness, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, worth, éclat |
| Antonyms: | failure, imperfection, inferiority |
| Main Entry: | priority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | first concern |
| Synonyms: | antecedence, arrangement, crash project, greatest importance, lead, order, precedence, preeminence, preference, prerogative, previousness, rank, right of way, seniority, superiority, supremacy, transcendence |
| Antonyms: | unimportance |
| Main Entry: | superiority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage, predominance |
| Synonyms: | ahead, ascendancy, authority, better, bulge, dominance, edge, eminence, excellence, influence, lead, meliority, nobility, perfection, position, power, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prestige, prevalence, pull, rank, spark, supremacy, top, transcendence, upper hand, vantage, victory, whip hand |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, inferiority, subservience |
| Main Entry: | supremacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | total domination |
| Synonyms: | absolute rule, ascendancy, authority, command, control, dominance, dominion, driver's seat, paramountcy, power, predominance, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, primacy, principality, sovereignty, superiority, supreme authority, sway, transcendence |
| Antonyms: | subservience |
| Main Entry: | transcendency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | superior excellence |
| Synonyms: | supereminence, superiority, supremacy, transcendence |
| Main Entry: | superbness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excellence |
| Synonyms: | arete, class, distinction, eminence, excellency, fineness, goodness, greatness, high quality, merit, perfection, preeminence, purity, quality, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, worth, éclat |
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| Main Entry: | supremacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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beyond compare, beyond comparison, crowning, culminating, dioristically, distinguished, egregious, enlarged, exceeding, exemplary, eximious, first, great, greater, greatest, higher, incomparable, increased, inexsuperable, inimitable, insigne, invictive, major, matchless, more than a match for, nonesuch, nonpareil, palmary, paramount, peerless, preeminent, pukka, ratherest, second to none, signate, skookum, sovereign, superior, superlative, supreme, transcendent, transcendental, ultra, unapproached, unequaled, unparagoned, unparalleled, unrivaled, unsurpassed, utmost, vaulting, without parallel
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| Concept: | Perfection. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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-nouns
perfection; perfectness; indefectibility; impeccancy, impeccability., pink, beau ideal, phenix, paragon; pink of perfection, acme of perfection; ne plus ultra; summit., cygne noir; philosopher's stone; chrysolite, Koh-i-noor., model, standard, pattern, mirror, admirable Crichton; trump, very prince of., masterpiece, superexcellence (goodness); transcendence (superiority).
-verbs
be perfect; transcend (be supreme)., bring to perfection, perfect, ripen, mature; complete; put in trim (prepare); maturate.
-adjectives
perfect, faultless; indefective, indeficient, indefectible; immaculate, spotless, impeccable; free from imperfection; unblemished, uninjured; sound, in perfect condition; scathless, intact, harmless; seaworthy (safe); right as a trivet; in seipso totus teres atque rotundus [Horace]; consummate (complete); finished., best (good); model, standard; inimitable, unparagoned, unparalleled (supreme); superhuman, divine; beyond all praise (approbation); sans peur et sans reproche.
-adverbs
to perfection; perfectly; ad unguem; clean, clean as a whistle.
-phrases
"let us go on unto perfection" [ Hebrews vi, 1]; "the perfection of art is to conceal art" [Quintilian].
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| Antonyms: | imperfection |
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| Concept: | Priority. |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
priority, antecedence, anteriority, precedence, pre-existence; precession; precursor; the past; premises.
-verbs
precede, come before; forerun; go before (lead); preexist; dawn; presage; herald, usher in., be beforehand (be early); steal a march upon, anticipate, forestall; have the start, gain the start.
-adjectives
prior, previous; preceding, precedent; anterior, antecedent; pre-existing, pre-existent; former, foregoing; before-mentioned, above-mentioned; aforesaid, said; introductory (precursory).
-adverbs
before, prior to; earlier; previously; afore, aforehand, beforehand, ere, theretofore, erewhile; ere then, ere now, before then, before now; erewhile, already, yet, beforehand; on the eve of.
-phrases
prior tempore prior jure.
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| Antonyms: | posteriority |
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