Prevalence

//ˈpɹɛvələns// noun

noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread. countable, uncountable

    "On Starting Point this morning, Southern Poverty Law Center senior fellow Mark Potok discusses the prevalence of white supremacist groups and explains how this type of music is used as a recruitment tool."

  2. 2
    the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread wordnet
  3. 3
    The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    a superiority in numbers or amount wordnet
  5. 5
    (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 wordnet

Synonyms

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abundanceacceptanceaccustomednessaffluenceample sufficiencyampleness

Example

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"In Brazil the prevalence of Asperger's Syndrome may reach 0.5%."

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French prévalence.

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