Defenition of the word prevalence
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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
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- commonness
- dominance
- frequency
- incidence
- occurrence
- pervasiveness
- popularity
- predominance
- preponderance
- primacy
Similar words in the prevalence
Hyponyms for the word prevalence
Hypernyms for the word prevalence
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- figure
- generality
- number
- ratio
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