Antonyms for prevalencepreva·lence

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1. prevalence

   Antonyms:
   disuse, desuetude, obsoleteness, decay, evanescence, disappearance, mitigation, subordination, collapse, abandonment, abolition, diminution, subsidence, subjection

   Synonyms:
   custom, power, influence, operation, extension, predominance, superiority, influence, efficacy, preponderance

Matched Categories

1. • Epidemiology
   • Generality
   • Number
   • Ratio

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1. prevalencenoun

   the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread

   "he was surprised by the prevalence of optimism about the future"

   Synonyms:
   preponderance

2. prevalencenoun

   (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

   Synonyms:
   preponderance

3. preponderance, prevalencenoun

   a superiority in numbers or amount

   "a preponderance of evidence against the defendant"

   Synonyms:
   preponderance

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. prevalence

   Synonyms:
   Epidemiology Extent, proportion Statistics Pretest probability, prior probability

How to use prevalence in a sentence?

1. Steven Riley:

   The number of COVID-19 in-patients (in hospital) is extremely high at the moment, and we can’t expect that to drop unless we can achieve lower levels of prevalence, the fact that (prevalence) is not going down has potentially serious consequences.

2. Sarah Jackson:

   Given that the rate of long-term success in quitting tends to be low, this is very unlikely to translate to a million fewer smokers in the UK, which would be a large decline in prevalence, at this relatively early stage of the pandemic, we don't yet have a great deal of information on its impact on smoking and quitting behavior. Other data sources are not yet showing evidence of a large drop in smoking prevalence ; it will be interesting to see if a substantial decline in smoking becomes evident over the coming months, and if so, whether this translates to a sustained reduction in the number of smokers in the UK.

3. Kacie Kidd:

   Our goal was to understand the prevalence of gender-diverse identities among high school students in our Pittsburgh school district by asking what we considered to be, and what many scholars consider to be, a more inclusive question about gender identity, we came in suspecting that this two-step gender identity question would demonstrate a higher prevalence of gender diversity than in prior studies.

4. Havelock Ellis:

   The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

5. Jay Jacobs:

   We will be monitoring the prevalence of the virus, community by community, if the prevalence is higher, our protocols are designed to meet the threat.

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