Mastery refers to having great skill at something or total dominance over something. If you are fluent in French, you have a mastery of the language. If you win every game of chess, you show a mastery of the game.
The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
Noun
the act of mastering or subordinating someone
Noun
great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity; "a good command of French"
Noun
power to dominate or defeat; "mastery of the seas"
n.
The position or authority of a master; dominion; command;
supremacy; superiority.
n.
Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph;
preeminence.
n.
Contest for superiority.
n.
A masterly operation; a feat.
n.
Specifically, the philosopher's stone.
n.
The act process of mastering; the state of having
mastered.
Mastery
If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.2.
The voice of them that shout for mastery.
Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.
O, but to have gulled him Had been a mastery.3.
I will do a maistrie ere I go.5.
He could attain to a mastery in all languages.
The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.
The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
Usage Examples
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
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Other Usage ExamplesAn artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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