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prevalence (s) (noun), prevalences (pl)
1. A huge amount or exceeding in numbers: Mr. Smart told his students that there was a prevalence of spelling mistakes in their tests which meant that they would have to spend much more time practising spelling!
2. The quality of predominance; widespread: There was a prevalence of buoyancy and hope among the students in the classroom when they heard that their last exam turned out to be very good!
3. The ratio of the number of incidents of an illness in a certain time period to a specific number of people in the population: The prevalence of the virus was greater in the southern countries than in the northern ones within Europe.
This entry is located in the following units: pre-, prae- (page 18) valid-, val-, vale-, -vail, -valent, -valence (page 4)