predominance

1. 1.

   the state of being predominant over others

   Synonymspredominationprepotency

   Broaderdominance
2. 2.

   the quality of being more noticeable than anything else

   “the predomination of blues gave the painting a quiet tone”

   Synonymspredomination

   Broaderobviousness

Other forms of predominance

plural

predominances·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about predominance

What does predominance mean?

predominance means "the state of being predominant over others". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in predominance?

predominance has 4 syllables: pre-do-mi-nance. The stress falls on "do". In IPA it is /pɹɪˈdɑmənəns/.

What is another word for predominance?

Close synonyms include predomination, prepotency, predomination. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is predominance a common word?

predominance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with predominance?

1 word rhymes with predominance. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.