Ascendance
Part of speech: noun
Definition: ascendancy; superiority.
Ascendancy
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The process or period of one's ascentSupremacy; superiority; dominant control; the quality of being in the ascendant
Example sentence: Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S.