prevalences
- 1Plural of prevalence.
Researchers tabulated disease prevalences across different age groups.
The study reported sharply different prevalences in rural and urban populations.
Note
A plural that makes sense once prevalence becomes something you can count. In the general meaning of being widespread, the word usually names a condition rather than a quantity. The plural belongs chiefly to epidemiological and statistical writing. There each prevalence is a figure, the cases of a disease divided by a population at a given time, and several figures are compared across age groups, regions or conditions.
prevalences is a form of prevalence
prevalence, noun: The state of being widespread or common; the extent to which something is found throughout an area or group. Full entry
- Forms
- prevalenceprevalences plural
- Spelling
- prevalence → prevalences: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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