Predominance

Definition: Predominance

Predominance

Noun

1. The state of being predominant over others.

2. The quality of being more noticeable than anything else; "the predomination of blues gave the painting a quiet tone".

Date "predominance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definition
Public Administration	If the share of one statistical unit in the result is predominant, it is the predominant unit's information which is disclosed. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Predominance

Synonym: predomination (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Influence	Noun: influence; importance; weight, pressure, preponderance, prevalence, sway; predominance, predominancy; ascendency; dominance, reign; control, domination, pull; authority; capability; (power); effect; interest.
River	Rain, rainfall; serein; shower, scud; downpour; driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst; hyetology, hyetography; predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin; mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash; dropping. Verb: falling weather; northeaster, hurricane, typhoon.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Predominance

English words defined with "predominance": Atrabiliary ♦ Dominancy ♦ mesomorphic, muscular ♦ Nervous temperament ♦ Predominancy, Prepollency, Prepotency. (references)

Specialty definitions using "predominance": carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance ♦ siliceous oozes ♦ von Graefe theory. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	East Asia: From Chinese Predominance to the Rise of the Pacific Rim (reference) Social Construction and the Logic of Money: Financial Predominance and International Economic Leadership (Suny Series in Global Politics) (reference) The End of French Predominance in Europe (reference) The predominance of the Islamic tradition of leadership in Egypt during Bonaparte's expedition (reference) World War I and the Growth of United States Predominance in Latin America (Foreign Economic Policy of the United States) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Predominance (reference) Predominance [EXTRA TRACKS] [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Sites of body fat predominance are easily measured by the ratio of waist to hip circumferences. (references)
		However, its predominance in the solar energy reaching the Earth's surface (tenfold to one hundredfold more than UVB) permits UVA to play a far more important role in contributing to the harmful effects of sun exposure than previously suspected. (references)
		The predominance of damage in different cochlear regions with different frequency exposures reflects factors such as the resonance of the ear canal, the middle-ear transfer characteristics, and the mechanical characteristics of the organ of Corti and basilar membrane. (references)
Business		Given the predominance of domestic production, and stiff European competition particularly from German and French companies, imports from the U.S. presently represent only 3% of overall imports. (references)
Civil Liberties	Nicaragua	However, the predominance of the Catholic Church does not impact negatively on the religious freedom of others. (references)
Economic History	Finland	Following Finland's incorporation into Sweden in the 12th century, Swedish became the dominant language, although Finnish recovered its predominance after a 19th-century resurgence of Finnish nationalism. (references)
	Senegal	Privatizations in telecommunications and public utilities have confirmed and increased the predominance of France as Senegal's leading foreign investor. (references)
Minorities	Togo	The relative predominance in private sector commerce and professions by members of southern ethnic groups, and the relative predominance in the public sector and especially the security forces by members of President Eyadema's Kabye group and other northern groups, are sources of political tension. (references)
	Tanzania	This has led to demands by small, populist opposition parties for policies of "indigenization" to ensure that privatization does not increase the Asian community's economic predominance at the expense of the country's African population. (references)
Political Rights	Russia	The Constitution gives predominance to the Presidency, and the President utilizes his many powers to set national priorities and establish individual policies. (references)
Trade	Philippines	Method of Labeling (for textile fabric): For finished textile fabrics in rolls or in folds, the label, which includes the trademark, the percent fiber content by mass, using the generic name of the fiber in the order of predominance, and the country of origin, must be woven into the selvedge not more than two meters apart, regardless of the width of the fabric. (references)
	Greece	Capital-market growth has been hampered by the predominance of small, family-owned firms, and the tendency either to invest in real estate and government bonds or to hold savings in bank deposits. (references)
	Colombia	Labels on processed food products must indicate: the specific name of the product, ingredients in order of predominance, name and address of manufacturer and importer, number of units, instructions for storage and usage (when required), expiration date, and other instructions as required by the Ministry of Health or the Industry and Commerce Superintendency. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Predominance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Predominance" is used about 186 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	186	22,556

Language		Translations for "predominance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		superioritet (pas), epërsi (advantage, ascendancy, ascendency, distinction, edge, excellence, excellency, pre eminence, preponderance, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, vantage, weight). (various references)

Arabic		‏هيمنة (ascendancy, dominance, domination, overriding, predomination, sway, uppercut), ‏نزوع مسبق, ‏غلبة (prevalence, triumph), ‏سيطرة (ascendant, clutch, command, control, dominance, domination, empire, government, gripe, hand, hegemony, hold, mastery, overriding, predomination, prevalence, reign, restraint, rule, ruling, weight). (various references)

Bulgarian		надмощие (ascendancy, ascendant, dominance, grasp, hegemony, mastery, overweight, supremacy), превъзходство (ascendant, cachet, excellence, excellency, odds, preeminence, preponderance, prepotency, primacy, superiority, supremacy, transcendence), преобладаване (overweight, preponderance, prevalence). (various references)

Chinese		优势 (Dominance, Preponderance, superiority). (various references)

Czech		převaha (ascendancy, balance, dominance, overbalance, overweight, preponderance, superiority), nadvláda (ascendancy, domination, dominion, supremacy). (various references)

Farsi		تفوق (Advantage, Ascendency, Excellence, Influence, Prevalence, Supremacy, Vantage), علو (Ascendency, Excellency), رجحان (Excellence, Predilection, Preference, Privilege), برتری (Advantage, Excellence, Excellency, Influence, Majesty, Power, Preference, Prepayment, Primacy, Priority, Profit, Prominence, Supremacy, Trancscendent, Upperhand, Vantage). (various references)

French		prédominance (predomination, prevalence). (various references)

German		vorherrschaft (dominance, domination, hegemony, prevalence, supremacy). (various references)

Greek		υπεροχή (ascendancy, dominance, eminence, excellence, forte, odds, overbalance, pre eminence, predominancy, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prevailingness, primacy, superbness, superiority, supremacy, supremeness, transcendence, transcendency, virtue), επικράτηση (dominance, predominancy, predomination, preponderance, prevalence). (various references)

Hebrew		שליט�" (ascendancy, authority, command, control, disposal, disposition, dominance, domination, dominion, mastery, predomination, proficiency, take over), עליו� ות (advantage, dominance, meliority, preeminence, preponderance, primacy, superiority, supremacy), �"�'מו� י�" (domination, episcopate, hegemony, supremacy). (various references)

Hungarian		uralkodás (dominance, domination, dominion, governance, mastery, reign, rule, ruling), túlsúly (excess, excess weight, odds, overfreight, overweight, predomination, preponderance, prevalence). (various references)

Indonesian		keunggulan (primacy, superiority, supremacy). (various references)

Italian		prevalenza (preponderance, prevalence, priority), predominio (ascendancy, hands over), predominanza. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		優越性 (supremacy), 優越 (being superior to, supremacy), 優位性 , 優位 (ascendancy, superiority), 優勢 (preponderance, superior power, superiority). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ゆうせい (dominance, eugenic, living a quiet life in seclusion away from the masses, male characteristics, manliness, planet, postal system, preponderance, sexual, superior power, superiority, vocal, voiced, wandering star, worrying about world conditions), ゆういせい, ゆうい (able, ascendancy, capable, magnificent, promising, significance, superiority, talented), ゆうえつせい (supremacy), ゆうえつ (being superior to, supremacy). (various references)

Pig Latin		edominancepray

Portuguese		preponderância (overbalance, overweight, pre-eminence, preponderance, prevalence), predomínio (dominance, pre-eminence, preponderance, prevalence, reign, squirearchy, supremacy). (various references)

Romanian		preponderenţã (preponderance, prepotency), predominare (dominance, prevalence), predominanţã, superioritate (advantage of, advantage over, jump, pre eminence, superiority). (various references)

Russian		превосходство (better hand, dominance, excellency, pre eminence, preeminence, preponderance, superiority, superlativeness, supremacy, supremeness, transcendence, transcendency). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prevlast (ascendant), predominantnost. (various references)

Spanish		predominio (predominancy, predomination, preponderance, prepotency, prevalence, reign). (various references)

Swedish		övermakt (superior numbers, superiority). (various references)

Turkish		hakim olma (grip, possession), ağır basma (overweight, preponderance), üstünlük (advantage, altitude, ascendancy, ascendency, beat, championship, class, distinction, dominance, edge, eligibility, excellence, head start, hegemony, lordship, mastery, odds, overweight, pre eminence, precedence, preponderance, primacy, spirit, supereminence, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, whip hand), çoğunluk (bulk, generality, majority, plurality, preponderance, ruck, run, the crowd). (various references)

Turkmen		agdyklyk. (various references)

Ukrainian		переважання (overweight, predominancy, prevalence, prevalency), панування (ascendance, ascendancy, dominance, domination, grasp, mastery, predominancy, supremacy). (various references)

Vietnamese		thế trội, ưu thế (ascendant, ascendent, bulge, preponderance, supremacy, vantage-ground, vantage-point). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "predominance": predominances. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Predominance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: predomanance, predominancy, predominante, predominency, prodominance. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "predominance" (pronounced prudÄ"mununs)
8	-d Ä" m u n u n s	dominance.
7	-Ä" m u n u n s	prominence.
6	-m u n u n s	chrominance, eminence, immanence, imminence, luminance, permanence, preeminence.
5	-u n u n s	abstinence, countenance, dissonance, incontinence, maintenance, ordinance, provenance, resonance, sustenance.
4	-n u n s	governance, Ordnance, penance.
3	-u n s	abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, distance, disturbance, divergence, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminescence, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, performance, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, protuberance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-m-n-n-o-p-r"
	-2 letters: prominence.
	-3 letters: companied, compendia, condemner, dominance, endocrine, impedance, macedoine, menadione, ordinance, praenomen, prenomina, princedom, promenade.
	-4 letters: apocrine, camporee, canopied, caponier, coadmire, comedian, compadre, compared, compered, copremia, crannied, daemonic, dampener, decennia, demeanor, demoniac, demonian, domineer, dopamine, enamored, encamped, endermic, endocarp, enneadic, mannered, medicare, mediocre, monecian, narceine, noncrime, normande, oedipean, ordnance, pandemic, penanced, pinecone, pomander.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-m-n-n-o-p-r"
	+1 letter: predominances.
	+2 letters: predominancies.
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