preponderance

Noun

Meaning

Alt. of Preponderancy

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

prevalence mass dominion control power body influence majority frequency most authority advantage bulk sovereignty dominance
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Antonyms

lack ban disadvantage breach prohibition veto
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Hypernyms

number power figure heaviness weightiness powerfulness

Related terms

obsolete preponderate preponderant preponderancy preponderantly preponderation

Examples

From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration. Charles Caleb Colton

There are just too many Americans grubbing for free stuff and a preponderance of Republicans eager to parcel it out in exchange for power. Ilana Mercer

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study. Woodrow Wilson

I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners. Chris Ware

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated. Marilyn Hacker

The most profound reason... why the metropolis conduces to the urge for the most individual personal existence... appears to me to be the following: the development of modern culture is characterized by the preponderance of what one may call the "objective spirit" over the "subjective spirit." Georg Simmel

Close letter words and terms

prepolymerization prepolymerize preponder preponderance of evidence preponderance of the evidence preponderancy