predominance
Other forms: predominances
Use the noun predominance to describe whatever is most noticeable, like the predominance of a gigantic television screen in a small living room.
When you notice that the word dominance makes up a big chunk of predominance, it won’t surprise you to learn that predominance is used to say that something exerts a strong influence and dominates. Sometimes that influence comes because of sheer numbers, such as a predominance of women in the teaching profession, but it can also result from superior power, such as a nation’s military predominance.
Definitions of predominance
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the quality of being more noticeable than anything elsesynonyms: predominationtype of:noticeability, noticeableness, obviousness, patencythe property of being easy to see and understand
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the state of being predominant over otherssynonyms: predomination, prepotencytype of:ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominancethe state that exists when one person or group has power over another
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