Word Meanings - PREVALENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. The duke better

Additional info about word: PREVALENCE

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. The duke better knew what kind of argument were of prevalence with him. Clarendon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PREVALENCE)

• Currency
• Circulation
• vogue
• publicity
• prevalence
• Dominance
• Lordship
• mastery
• superiority
• preponderance
• Predominance
• Prevalence
• ascendancy
• rule

Related words: (words related to PREVALENCE)

• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• VOGUE
  vogare to row, to sail; probably fr. OHG. wag to move, akin to E. 1. The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom, or practice; popular reception for the time; -- used now generally in the phrase in vogue. One vogue,
• LORDSHIP
  1. The state or condition of being a lord; hence , a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge , etc. 2. Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor. What lands and
• PUBLICITY
  The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.
• CURRENCY
  currentia a current, fr. L. currens, p. pr. of currere to run. See 1. A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a sream; as, the currency of time. Ayliffe. 2. The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception;
• PREDOMINANCE
  The superior influence of a planet. Shak. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being predominant; superiority; ascendency; prevalence; predomination. The predominance of conscience over interest. South.
• PREVALENCE
  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. The duke better
• SUPERIORITY
  The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit. Syn. -- Preëminence; excellence; predominancy; prevalence; ascendency; odds; advantage.
• CIRCULATION
  The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also, the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants. (more info) 1. The
• PUBLICITY PAMPHLET
  A pamphlet which, in some States of the United States having the initiative or referendum, is mailed to the voters to inform them as to the nature of a measure submitted by the initiative or referendum. The pamphlet contains a copy of the proposed
• PREPONDERANCE; PREPONDERANCY
  The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of them. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing. The mind should
• DOMINANCE; DOMINANCY
  Predominance; ascendency; authority.
• MASTERY
  1. The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority. If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Superiority in war or competition; victory;
• OVERLORDSHIP
  Lordship or supremacy of a person or a people over others. J. R. Green.
• IMPREVALENCE; IMPREVALENCY
  Want of prevalence.
• RECURRENCE; RECURRENCY
  The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse. I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent recurrence to the dangerous preparations. I. Taylor.
• CONCURRENCY
  Concurrence.