Predominance vs Majority - What's the difference?
predominance | majority |
the condition or state of being predominant; ascendancy, domination, preeminence or preponderance
More than half (50%) of some group
* {{quote-book, year=1920, title=, author=Champ Clark
, passage=But in 1912 the American people gave the Democrats another opportunity, and under the leadership of Woodrow Wilson we swept the country from sea to sea. At the end of that historic contest we had the Presidency, the Senate by a working majority, and the House by an overwhelming majority.}}
The difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
(dated) Legal adulthood
(UK) The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major
Ancestors; ancestry.
As nouns the difference between predominance and majority
is that predominance is predominance while majority is more than half (50%) of some group.predominance
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(predominances)majority
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(wikipedia majority)Noun
(majorities)- The majority agreed that the new proposal was the best.
- Those opposing the building plans were in the majority , so the building project was canceled.
- The winner with 53% had a 6% majority over the loser with 47%.
- By the time I reached my majority , I had already been around the world twice.
- On receiving the news of his promotion, Charles Snodgrass said he was delighted to be entering his majority .