• IPA: /pɹɪˈpɒnd(ə)ɹəns/

preponderance

1. Excess or superiority of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.
   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 11, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 168:

     But even less disgruntled observers have insisted that pain and un-pleasure are more common in dreams than pleasure: for instance, Scholz (1893, 57), Volkelt (1875, 80), and others. Indeed two ladies, Florence Hallam and Sarah Weed (1896, 499), have actually given statistical expression, based on a study of their own dreams, to the preponderance of unpleasure in dreaming.

2. (obsolete) The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.
3. The greater portion of the weight.
4. The majority.

• French: prépondérance, supériorité numérique
• German: Präponderanz
• Portuguese: preponderância
• Russian: преиму́щество
• Spanish: preponderancia