Mainstay vs Preponderance - What's the difference?
mainstay | preponderance |
A chief support.
:Agriculture is the mainstay of this country’s economy.
(nautical) A stabilising rope from the top of the mainmast to the bottom of the foremast.
Excess or superiority of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.
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* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 168:
(obsolete) The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.
The greater portion of the weight.
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The majority.
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As nouns the difference between mainstay and preponderance
is that mainstay is a chief support while preponderance is preponderance.mainstay
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- In a few weeks he had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed.
- But even less disgruntled observers have insisted that pain and un-pleasure are more common in dreams than pleasure: for instance, Scholz (1893, 57), Volkelt (1875, 80), and others. Indeed two ladies, Florence Hallam and Sarah Weed (1896, 499), have actually given statistical expression, based on a study of their own dreams, to the preponderance of unpleasure in dreaming.