2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
The duke better knew what kind of argument were of
prevalence with him --Clarendon.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
prevalence
n 1: the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread; "the
prevalence of dysentery is horrible"
2: a superiority in numbers [syn: {preponderance}]
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