Preponderance vs Prevalence - What's the difference?
preponderance | prevalence |
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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The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension.
(epidemiology) 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.
As nouns the difference between preponderance and prevalence
is that preponderance is excess or superiority of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing while prevalence is the quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension.preponderance
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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.