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

IPA(key): /suˈpɹɛməsi/
Hyphenation: su‧prem‧a‧cy

supremacy (usually uncountable, plural supremacies)

The quality of being supreme.
Power over all others.
(in combination) The ideology that a specified group is superior to others or should have supreme power over them.
white supremacy
- 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.
(in combination) A state of privilege for a specified group relative to other people in society.

air supremacy
black supremacy
cissupremacy
heterosupremacy
papal supremacy
quantum supremacy
straight supremacy
supremacism
white supremacy
supremacist
supremacism
→ French: suprématie
- → Galician: supremacía
- → Italian: supremazia
- → Polish: supremacja
- → Portuguese: supremacia
- → Romanian: supremație
- → Spanish: supremacía

quality of being supreme

Aghwan: 𐔼𐕀𐕒𐔺𐕒𐕡𐕎 (ixoyun)
Belarusian: перава́га f (pjeraváha), панава́нне n (panavánnje)
Bulgarian: превъзхо́дство (bg) n (prevǎzhódstvo), госпо́дство (bg) n (gospódstvo)
Catalan: supremacia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 霸權 / 霸权 (zh) (bàquán)
Dutch: suprematie (nl) f
Finnish: ylemmyys (fi), ylivertaisuus
French: suprématie (fr) f
Galician: supremacía (gl) f
Georgian: უპირატესობა (uṗiraṭesoba), ბატონობა (baṭonoba)
German: Vorherrschaft (de) f
Greek: υπεροχή (el) f (yperochí), κύρος (el) n (kýros), κυριαρχία (el) f (kyriarchía)
Irish: ardréim f
Italian: supremazia (it) f
Japanese: 覇権 (ja) (はけん, haken)
Korean: 패권(覇權) (ko) (paegwon)
Macedonian: превосходство n (prevoshodstvo), надмоќ f (nadmoḱ)
Plautdietsch: Äwahaunt f
Polish: supremacja (pl) f, przewaga (pl) f
Portuguese: supremacia (pt) f
Romanian: supremație (ro) f
Russian: превосхо́дство (ru) n (prevosxódstvo), госпо́дство (ru) n (gospódstvo)
Spanish: supremacía (es) f
Swedish: överhöghet (sv), överlägsenhet (sv)
Tatar: өстенлек (tt) (östenlek)
Turkish: üstünlük (tr)
Ukrainian: перева́га f (pereváha), зве́рхність f (zvérxnistʹ), ви́щість f (výščistʹ), панува́ння n (panuvánnja)
Vietnamese: bá quyền (vi) (霸權)

authority over all others

Aghwan: 𐔼𐕀𐕒𐔺𐕒𐕡𐕎 (ixoyun)
Azerbaijani: alilik
Belarusian: панава́нне n (panavánnje)
Bulgarian: госпо́дство (bg) n (gospódstvo)
Czech: nadvláda (cs) f
Finnish: ylemmyys (fi), ylivalta (fi)
Galician: supremacía (gl) f
Georgian: უპირატესობა (uṗiraṭesoba), ბატონობა (baṭonoba)
Irish: ardcheannas m, ceannas m
Macedonian: превосходство n (prevoshodstvo), надмоќ f (nadmoḱ)
Polish: supremacja (pl) f, zwierzchnictwo (pl) n
Portuguese: supremacia (pt) f
Russian: превосхо́дство (ru) n (prevosxódstvo), верхове́нство (ru) n (verxovénstvo), госпо́дство (ru) n (gospódstvo)
Sanskrit: क्षत्र (sa) n (kṣatra)
Slovak: nadvláda f
Slovene: nadvlada f
Spanish: supremacía (es) f
Swedish: herravälde (sv) n, övermakt (sv) c
Tatar: өстенлек (tt) (östenlek)
Ukrainian: зве́рхність f (zvérxnistʹ), панува́ння n (panuvánnja)

Translations to be checked

Esperanto: (please verify) ĉefeco
“supremacy”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
“supremacy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.