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prevalence - 11 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | prevalence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | predominance |
| Synonyms: | currency, popularity, preponderance, ubiquity, vogue, pervasiveness |
| Main Entry: | advantage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | benefit, favored position or circumstance |
| Synonyms: | aid, ascendancy, asset, assistance, authority, avail, blessing, boon, break, choice, comfort, convenience, dominance, edge, eminence, favor, gain, good, gratification, help, hold, improvement, influence, interest, lead, leeway, leverage, luck, mastery, odds, position, power, precedence, preference, prestige, prevalence, profit, protection, recognition, resources, return, sanction, starting, superiority, support, supremacy, upper hand*, utility, wealth, expediency, leg-up, pre-eminence |
| Notes: | advantage is a relatively favorable position; superiority of means while vantage is a position, condition, or opportunity that is likely to provide superiority or an advantage |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, drawback, handicap, hindrance, loss, obstacle, restriction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ascendancy/ascendency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | domination |
| Synonyms: | advantage, authority, command, control, dominance, dominion, edge, influence, jump*, mastery, power, predominance, prevalence, reign, rule, sovereignty, superiority, supremacy, sway, upper hand*, leg up, on top, preeminence, prepotence, whip hand |
| Antonyms: | decline, inferiority, subordination, powerlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frequency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commonness, repetitiveness |
| Synonyms: | abundance, beat, constancy, density, iteration, number, oscillation, persistence, prevalence, regularity, reiteration, repetition, rhythm, frequentness, periodicity, pulsation, recurrence |
| Antonyms: | infrequency, irregularity, uncommonness |
| Main Entry: | popularity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recognition, celebrity |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, acclaim, adoration, approval, currency, demand, esteem, fame, fashion, favor, following, heyday, prevalence, regard, renown, reputation, vogue, fashionableness, idolization, lionization, repute, universality |
| Antonyms: | dislike, unpopularity |
| Main Entry: | preponderance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great numbers; supremacy |
| Synonyms: | advantage, ascendancy, bigger half, bulk, command, dominance, domination, dominion, extensiveness, greater part, lion's share, mass, max, mostest, power, predominance, prevalence, superiority, sway, weight |
| Antonyms: | inferiority |
| Main Entry: | superiority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage, predominance |
| Synonyms: | ahead, ascendancy, authority, better, bulge, dominance, edge, eminence, excellence, influence, lead, nobility, perfection, position, power, preponderance, prestige, prevalence, pull, rank, spark, supremacy, top, upper hand*, victory, meliority, predomination, preeminence, transcendence, vantage, whip hand |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, inferiority, subservience |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vogue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fashion; current practice |
| Synonyms: | chic, craze*, currency, custom, dernier cri, fad*, favor, last word*, latest, mode, popularity, practice, prevalence, rage*, style, thing*, trend, usage, use, way, fashionableness, in thing, stylishness |
| Antonyms: | disuse, out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occurrence |
| Synonyms: | degree, drift, extent, frequency, measure, number, percentage, prevalence, proportion, rate, scope, tendency, trend, commonness |
| Main Entry: | ascendancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | domination |
| Synonyms: | advantage, ascendency, authority, command, control, dominance, dominion, edge, influence, jump, predominance, prevalence, reign, rule, sovereignty, superiority, supremacy, sway, upper hand, leg up, mastery power, pre-eminence, prepotence, whip hand |
| Antonyms: | inferiority, subordination, weakness |
| Main Entry: | fashion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attitude, manner |
| Synonyms: | convention, custom, demeanor, device, etiquette, form, formality, formula, guise, method, mode, modus operandi, mores, observance, order, practice, precedent, prescription, prevalence, procedure, sort, style, system, technique, tendency, tone, trend, usage, vein, vogue, way |
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