different between supremacy vs sovereignty

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

Alternative forms

• soveraigntie (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English sovereynte, from Anglo-Norman sovereyneté, from Old French souveraineté, from soverain.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?v.??n.ti/, /?s?v.??n.ti/

Noun

sovereignty (countable and uncountable, plural sovereignties)

1. Of a polity: the state of making laws and controlling resources without the coercion of other nations.

   Synonyms: autarchy, independence, nationality, nationhood

   • 2019, Manuel Valls, What have Britain and Catalonia got in common? Delusions of independence in the Guardian

     In today’s interconnected economies and societies, a formal independence is the opposite of gaining real sovereignty and control. This is because the excluded party would be absent from the table when decisions are made, unable to participate as choices are taken that, sooner or later, will affect them.

2. Of a ruler: supreme authority over all things.
3. Of a person: the liberty to decide one's thoughts and actions.

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