different between excellence vs prevalence

English

Etymology

From Old French excellence, from Latin excellentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ks?l?ns/

Noun

excellence (usually uncountable, plural excellences)

1. The quality of being excellent; brilliance
2. Something in which one excels.
3. An excellent or valuable quality; something at which any someone excels; a virtue.

Synonyms

• superiority
• pre-eminence
• perfection
• worth
• goodness
• purity
• greatness

Translations

See also

• par excellence

References

• excellence at OneLook Dictionary Search
• excellence in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• excellence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.s?.l??s/

Noun

excellence f (plural excellences)

1. Excellence.
2. Excellency (term of address).

Derived terms

Further reading

• “excellence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle French prévalence

Noun

prevalence (countable and uncountable, plural prevalences)

1. The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.
2. (epidemiology) The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.

Related terms

• prevail
• prevalent

Translations

See also

• incidence

Further reading

• prevalence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• prevalence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pr?val?nt?s?]

Noun

prevalence f

1. (epidemiology) prevalence

   Synonym: výskyt

Related terms

• See vale

Further reading

• prevalence in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• prevalence in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989