Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mastery

3 senses of mastery

Sense 1
command, control, mastery -- (great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity; "a good command of French")
       => skillfulness -- (the state of being cognitively skillful)

Sense 2
domination, mastery, supremacy -- (power to dominate or defeat; "mastery of the seas")
       => dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control -- (the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her")

Sense 3
mastery, subordination -- (the act of mastering or subordinating someone)
       => domination -- (social control by dominating)