prevalence
/ˈpɹɛvələns/
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variant/pɹɪˈveɪləns/
prevalence noun: the quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.
Noun
prevalence (countable and uncountable, plural prevalences)
- The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.
- On Starting Point this morning, Southern Poverty Law Center senior fellow Mark Potok discusses the prevalence of white supremacist groups and explains how this type of music is used as a recruitment tool.2012 August 7, “SPLC fellow: ‘I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that [Page] essentially expected to die’”, in CNN
- 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.
prevalence meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
prevalence in Hindi
- wide extension
- लौकिकता laukiktā
prevalence in Tamil
- அளவு நோய் பரவியுள்ளமை, நோய் பாதிப்புப் பரிமாணம், விகிதம், நோய் உள்ள பகுதி, நோய் பரவிய பகுதி
prevalence in Urdu
- ترویج
prevalence in Bengali
- prevalence
- ব্যাপ্তি bêpti
More languagesFewer languages
- prevalence in Telugu
- ప్రాబల్యం
- prevalence in Malayalam
- പ്രചാരം, പ്രചുരിമ, പ്രാചുര്യം, പ്രചുരത
- prevalence in Punjabi
- ਪ੍ਰਚਲਤਤਾ
- prevalence in Gujarati
- પ્રચલિતતા
- prevalence in Arabic
- اِنْتِشَار intišār
- prevalence in Indonesian
- prevalensi
Examples of prevalence in a sentence
- Endogamy historically predominated in Jewish populations, giving rise to a high prevalence of genetic diseases.
- Injury prevalence data, muscle strength, and fatiguability differ between males and females.
- Each country may have a different prevalence of infectious abortive agents.
Forms of prevalence
| plural | prevalences |
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Origin of prevalence
Borrowed from Middle French prévalence.
Words formed from prevalence
Questions about prevalence
- What does prevalence mean?
- Prevalence means the quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.
- What is prevalence in Hindi?
- Prevalence in Hindi is लौकिकता (laukiktā). See Prevalence meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is prevalence?
- Prevalence is a noun.
- How do you pronounce prevalence?
- Prevalence is pronounced /ˈpɹɛvələns/.
- What is the plural of prevalence?
- The plural of prevalence is prevalences.
Words near prevalence in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: prevalence (page history and authors); prevalence (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prevalence (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ব্যাপ্তি (Bengali) (page history and authors); prevalence (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); prevalence (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); prevalence (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); prevalence (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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