preponderance
nounEtymology
From preponderant + -ance.
Definitions
Superiority in amount or number
Superiority in amount or number; the bulk or majority; also, a large amount or number; an abundance, a profusion.
- [S]trong proofs are at hand to shew, that in the Irish people there is a large admixture, if not an overwhelming praeponderance, of Iberian elements.
- Is there a preponderance of female protagonists in commercial fiction, and if so, what does it mean?
- Subtle, institutional discrimination was evident in the preponderance of blacks and underprivileged whites fighting the war.
Superiority of influence, power, a quality, etc.
Superiority of influence, power, a quality, etc.; an outweighing, predominance, pre-eminence.
- In a few weeks he [William III of England] had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed.
Greater physical weight.
The neighborhood
- neighborpreponder
- neighborpreponderancy
- neighborpreponderant
- neighborpreponderantly
- neighborpreponderate
- neighborpreponderately
- neighborpreponderating
- neighborpreponderatingly
- neighborpreponderation
- neighborprepondering
- neighborpreponderous
- neighborpreponderously
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at preponderance. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at preponderance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at preponderance
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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