Synonyms for primacy
ˈpraɪ mə sipri·ma·cy

Princeton's WordNet

1. primacynoun

   the state of being first in importance

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1. primacynoun

   Synonyms:
   primateship

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1. List of paraphrases for "primacy":

   supremacy, precedence, rule, pre-eminence, primate, priority, predominance, superiority, paramountcy

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1. Jessica Bendinger:

   Black culture in America has had primacy in a way that hasn't been as embraced or as acknowledged as it deserves to be.

2. Douglas Lute:

   We're in a new relationship with a newly aggressive, newly assertive Russia, it's brought us back to the primacy of our initial core task: collective defense, our immediate neighborhood.

3. Cyril Almeida:

   The state is awkwardly trying to reassert its primacy, but generations now of Pakistanis have been raised with the belief that their version of religion trumps everything else, the blasphemy law is almost incidental to the larger trend of a radicalized society that has slipped out of the control of a weak state.

4. Michael Wesley:

   The South China Sea is a classic example of how China thinks about, and is probably succeeding in, rejecting and displacing U.S. primacy in the region, without really risking (major) conflict.

5. Charles Crawford:

   What might bring the EU to an end? It won't be a meeting of EU member states, saying let's end this. But what might start its collapse is some states saying, we don't really accept the primacy of EU law anymore, once nation states start challenging the legal order, that is desperately serious for the EU.