predominance

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[ UK /pɹɪdˈɒmɪnəns/ ]
[ US /pɹɪˈdɑmənəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of being more noticeable than anything else
    the predomination of blues gave the painting a quiet tone
  2. the state of being predominant over others
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How To Use predominance In A Sentence

  • Men's predominance in income-earning activities and greater income were translated into greater control over household decision making.
  • It is distinguished from adjacent terranes of similar age by its open synclinal structure, obviously fossiliferous character, the thickness of essentially conformable strata, and the predominance of volcaniclastic rocks.
  • This predominance of cans is a correct impression of the country's cat food market.
  • Albanian predominance is proved by the fact that – so far as my experience goes, and I tried repeatedly – the Albanians are almost solely Albanophone, whereas the scattered Serbs usually speak both languages, and when addressed in Serb often replied at first in Albanian. High Albania
  • There's something about the friendly nature of the place, the predominance of music, and the idyllic beauty of the shores and the surf, that heightens the joy of living.
  • Eventually even their economic predominance was to suffer.
  • Where we know the occupations of their inhabitants, the predominance of the victualling trades and of craftsmen - shopkeepers in leather, metal, and textiles - is striking.
  • It is classified according to the predominance of specific leaf length as mesophilous (13-26 centimeters (cm)) or microphyllous (1-6 cm), coastal and subcoastal. Cuban dry forests
  • Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity.
  • He passes to consider the defect which has "mildewed" all the poetry written since Shelley, "the predominance of art over inspiration, of body over soul. Personality in Literature
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