Prevalence

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prevalence \Prev"a*lence\, n. [L. praevalentia: cf. F.
     pr['e]valence. See {Prevail}.]
     The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior
     strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception,
     or practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of
     a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           The duke better knew what kind of argument were of
           prevalence with him.                     --Clarendon.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  prevalence
       n 1: the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread; "he
            was surprised by the prevalence of optimism about the
            future"
       2: (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
       3: a superiority in numbers or amount; "there is a
          preponderance of Blacks in our prisons" [syn: {preponderance}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  117 Moby Thesaurus words for "prevalence":
     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