different between supremacy vs primacy

English

Etymology

From supreme +? -acy (a variant of -cy). Compare with supremity and New Latin suprematia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su?p??m?si/
• Hyphenation: su?prem?a?cy

Noun

supremacy (usually uncountable, plural supremacies)

1. The quality of being supreme.
2. Power over all others.
3. (in combination) The ideology that a specified group is superior to others or should have supreme power over them.
   • 2004, Andrew Michael Manis, Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century, Mercer University Press (?ISBN), page 139:

     Fighting a war against Hitler's Nazi ideology, with its doctrine of Aryan supremacy and its "final solution" to protect against an "inferior people," accentuated the final irony of an America fighting a racist ideology while trying to keep its own racist ideology intact.

4. (in combination) A state of privilege for a specified group relative to other people in society.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? French: suprématie
  • ? Polish: supremacja
  • ? Portuguese: supremacia
  • ? Romanian: suprema?ie
  • ? Spanish: supremacía
  • ? Galician: supremacía

Derived terms

• supremacist
• supremacism

Translations

References

• “supremacy”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000
• supremacy at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From Old French primacie

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?a?.m?.si/, /?p??.m?.si/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?a?.m?.si/

Noun

primacy (usually uncountable, plural primacies)

1. The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc.
   • December 25 2016, Amruta Patil writing in The Hindu, The book in my hand
   • I am reading Nick Sousanis’ PhD dissertation-as-a-comic Unflattening. It debunks the primacy of word over image in Western culture and suggests that the two are equal partners in meaning-making.
2. (archaic) excellence; supremacy.
3. (religion) The office, rank, or character of a primate, it being the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church
   • December 2 2016, Catholic World News, Ecumenical Patriarch points to areas of agreement with Pope

     Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who holds a primacy of honor in Eastern Orthodoxy, emphasized the many areas of agreement between Pope Francis and himself in response to the social concerns of the day.

4. (religion) the office or dignity of an archbishop

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