Dominance

Last updated May 25, 2025

Dominance may refer to:

Social relationships

Dominance hierarchy or social hierarchy, an organizational form by which individuals within a community control the distribution of resources within the community
Dominance and submission, set of behaviors, customs, and rituals in an erotic or lifestyle context
Social dominance theory, a theory of intergroup relations
Social dominance orientation, a personality trait
Abusive power and control, the way that an abusive person gains and maintains power and control over another person
Dual strategies theory, dominance and its counterpart prestige as two strategies for gaining status in human hierarchies

Dominance (ethology), in animal behaviour and anthropology, the level of social status relative to other individuals
Dominance (ecology), the degree of predominance of one or a few species in an ecological community
Dominance (genetics), a relationship between the effects of different versions of a gene

Strategic dominance, a method of simplification for games
Stochastic dominance, a situation in which one lottery (a probability distribution of outcomes) can be ranked as superior to another, with only limited knowledge of preferences
Dominance order, a partial order
Dominance drawing, a style of graph drawing

Dominance (C++), an aspect of virtual inheritance in the C++ programming language
Dominance (economics), in economics, the degree of inequality in market share distribution
Dominatrix, a woman who takes the dominant role in BDSM activities
Strategic dominance, in game theory, when one strategy is better for one opponent regardless of the other opponent's strategy
Dominance (linguistics), a relationship between syntactic nodes
Dominance (geography), a radius used with topographic isolation
Male dominance (BDSM), BDSM activities where the dominant partner is male