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Defenition of the word prevalence

    • Defenition of the word prevalence

      • The number of people who have a certain condition at any given time.
      • a superiority in numbers
      • the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread; "the prevalence of dysentery is horrible"
      • the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread; "he was surprised by the prevalence of optimism about the future"
      • a superiority in numbers or amount; "there is a preponderance of Blacks in our prisons"
      • (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
      • the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread
      • a superiority in numbers or amount

    Synonyms for the word prevalence

      • commonness
      • dominance
      • frequency
      • incidence
      • occurrence
      • pervasiveness
      • popularity
      • predominance
      • preponderance
      • primacy

    Similar words in the prevalence

      • prevalence
      • prevalence's

    Hyponyms for the word prevalence

      • currency

    Hypernyms for the word prevalence

      • figure
      • generality
      • number
      • ratio

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