Prevalence Definition

prĕvə-ləns
noun
The condition of being prevalent.
American Heritage Medicine
The total number of cases of a disease in a given population at a specific time.
American Heritage Medicine

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.

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Noun

Singular:
prevalence
Plural:
prevalences

Prevalence Sentence Examples

  • The prevalence of sunlight led to a restriction of the windows and exaggeration of wall space.

  • In this way we must explain the great prevalence of the Latin language.

  • The death-rate is high, especially among children, owing to the prevalence of cholera, smallpox and fevers during the dry weather.

  • For a long time the cultivation of Polish philology was in a low state, owing to the prevalence of Latin in the 17th century and French in the 18th.

  • Naturally he felt that the prevalence of Christianity was incompatible with his ideal of Roman prosperity, and therefore that the policy of the Flavian emperors was the only logical solution of an important problem.

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Words Starting With

PPRPRE

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ECENCE

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