Prevalence means there is a lot of something. If you get a bad grade on a paper for having a prevalence of typos, you need to proofread your work more carefully.
The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension;
Noun
the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread; "he was surprised by the prevalence of optimism about the future"
Noun
a superiority in numbers or amount; "there is a preponderance of Blacks in our prisons"
Noun
(epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population
n.
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.
Prevalence
The duke better knew what kind of argument were of prevalence with him.
The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension;
Usage Examples
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
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Other Usage ExamplesAlthough awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.
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