prevalence

See also: prévalence

English

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Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French prévalence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛvələns/
• (variant) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈveɪləns/ (modelled on prevail)

• Audio (US):

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Noun

prevalence (countable and uncountable, plural prevalences)

1. The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.
   • 2012 August 7, “SPLC fellow: ‘I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that [Page] essentially expected to die’”, in CNN‎:

     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.

2. (epidemiology) 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.

Related terms

• prevail
• prevalent

Translations

wide extension

Bulgarian: преобладаване n (preobladavane) Chinese: Mandarin: 流行 (zh) (liúxíng), 盛行 (zh) (shèngxíng), 普遍 (zh) (pǔbiàn), 廣泛 / 广泛 (zh) (guǎngfàn) Dutch: het heersen, het algemeen voorkomen, verspreiding (nl) f Finnish: hallitsevuus (fi), vallitsevuus, prevalenssi (fi) French: prédominance (fr) f German: weite Verbreitung f, Vorherrschen n, Verbreitetsein n, starkes Vorkommen n Indonesian: prevalensi (id) Irish: leitheadúlacht f Romanian: prevalență (ro) f Russian: преобладание (ru) n (preobladanije) Serbo-Croatian: надмоћност f (nadmoćnost) Spanish: predominancia (es) f, predominio (es) m, preponderancia f, prevalencia (es) f

number of cases compared to a total population

Arabic: اِنْتِشَار (ar) m (intišār) Bulgarian: инцидентност f (incidentnost) Dutch: overwicht (nl) n Finnish: sairastavuus (fi) French: prévalence (fr) German: Prävalenz (de) f, Kennzahl für die Häufigkeit f Indonesian: prevalensi (id) Italian: prevalenza (it) Portuguese: prevalência Russian: распространённость (ru) f (rasprostranjónnostʹ) Spanish: prevalencia (es) Ukrainian: поши́реність f (pošýrenistʹ)

See also

• incidence

Further reading

• “prevalence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “prevalence”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈprɛvalɛnt͡sɛ]

Noun

prevalence f

1. (epidemiology) prevalence

   Synonym: výskyt

Declension

Declension of prevalence (soft feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	prevalence	prevalence
genitive	prevalence	prevalencí
dative	prevalenci	prevalencím
accusative	prevalenci	prevalence
vocative	prevalence	prevalence
locative	prevalenci	prevalencích
instrumental	prevalencí	prevalencemi

Related terms

• See vale

Further reading

• “prevalence”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “prevalence”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “prevalence”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025