Synonyms:
prevalence
Meaning: the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread; "he was surprised by the prevalence of optimism about the future"
Usage examples
There is direct evidence, too, besides the story in the first paragraph of this chapter, that women disliked the prevalence of smoking.
A draft is sometimes the most convenient form for collecting an account. The prevalence of the custom is due to the fact that most men will wait to be asked to pay a debt.
But the old towns, on account of the great prevalence of piracy, were built away from the sea, whether on the islands or the continent, and still remain in their old sites.
THE tendency of the principle of legislation for States, or communities, in their political capacities, as it has been exemplified by the experiment we have made of it, is equally attested by the events which have befallen all other governments of the confederate kind, of which we have any account, in exact proportion to its prevalence in those systems.