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Predominant vs Preponderance - What's the difference?

predominant | preponderance |

As an adjective predominant

is predominant.

As a verb predominant

is .

As a noun preponderance is

preponderance.

predominant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • common or widespread; prevalent
  • significant or important; dominant

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music) A subdominant.

    • preponderance

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    Noun

  • Excess or superiority of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.
  • * Macaulay
    • 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.
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  • * 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 168:
    • 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.
  • (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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