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prevalence
noun
1 prevalence
The quality of prevailing generally; being widespread.
Roget 78:
generality,
generalization;
universality;
catholicity,
catholicism;
miscellany,
miscellaneousness†;
dragnet;
common run;
worldwideness†.
everyone,
everybody;
all hands,
all the world and his wife;
anybody,
N or M,
all sorts.
prevalence,
run.
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Roget 613:
habit,
habitude;
assuetude†,
assuefaction†,
wont;
run,
way.
common state of things,
general state of things,
natural state of things,
ordinary state of things,
ordinary course of things,
ordinary run of things;
matter of course;
beaten path,
beaten track,
beaten ground.
prescription,
custom,
use,
usage,
immemorial usage,
practice;
prevalence,
observance;
conventionalism,
conventionality;
mode,
fashion,
vogue;
etiquette
etc.
(gentility)
852;
order of the day,
cry;
conformity
etc.
82;
consuetude,
dustoor†.
one's old way,
old school,
veteris vestigia flammae [Lat.];
laudator temporis acti [Lat.].
rule,
standing order,
precedent,
routine;
red-tape,
red-tapism†;
pipe clay;
rut,
groove.
cacoethes [Lat.];
bad habit,
confirmed habit,
inveterate habit,
intrinsic habit
&c.;
addiction,
trick.
training
etc.
(education)
537;
seasoning,
second nature,
acclimatization;
knack
etc.
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2 prevalence
epidemiology The ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population.
Dutch: prevalentie
Polish: chorobowość
3 prevalence
A superiority in numbers or amount.
synonym: preponderance.
Roget 33:
superiority,
majority;
greatness
etc.
31;
advantage;
pull;
preponderance,
preponderation;
vantage ground,
prevalence,
partiality;
personal superiority;
nobility
etc.
(rank)
875;
Triton among the minnows,
primus inter pares [Lat.],
nulli secundus [Lat.],
captain;
crackajack [U.S.].
supremacy,
preeminence;
lead;
maximum;
record;
trikumia [Gr.],
climax;
culmination
etc.
(summit)
210;
transcendence;
ne plus ultra [Lat.];
lion's share,
Benjamin's mess;
excess,
surplus
etc.
(remainder)
40;
(redundancy)
641.
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Roget 175:
influence;
importance
etc.
642;
weight,
pressure,
preponderance,
prevalence,
sway;
predominance,
predominancy†;
ascendency†;
dominance,
reign;
control,
domination,
pull [Slang];
authority
etc.
737;
capability
etc.
(power)
157;
effect
etc.
154;
interest.
synergy
(cooperation)
709.
footing;
purchase
etc.
(support)
215;
play,
leverage,
vantage ground.
tower of strength,
host in himself;
protection,
patronage,
auspices.
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Moby thesaurus: abundance, acceptance, accustomedness, affluence, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, ascendancy, avalanche, averageness, bon ton, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, bumper crop, common occurrence, commonality, commonness, commonplaceness, confirmedness, control, copiousness, currency, customariness, extensiveness, extravagance, exuberance, fashionableness, fertility, fixedness, flood, flow, foison, frequence, frequency, full measure, fullness, generality, generosity, generousness, great abundance, great plenty, gush, habitualness, incidence, inveteracy, inveterateness, landslide, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, lots, luxuriance, mastery, maximum, modishness, more than enough, much, myriad, myriads, normality, numerousness, oftenness, omnipresence, opulence, opulency, ordinariness, outpouring, overflow, pervasiveness, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, popularity, practice, predominance, primacy, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, quantities, rampantness, reign, relative incidence, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, rifeness, riot, riotousness, routineness, rule, run, scads, settledness, shower, spate, standardness, stream, stylishness, substantiality, substantialness, superabundance, sway, sweepingness, teemingness, ubiquity, universality, usualness, voguishness, wealth, widespreadness, wontedness ... show more.
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