Preponderance

Noun

 * 1) Excess or superiority of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1)  The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.
 * 2) The greater portion of the weight.
 * 3) The majority.
 * 1) The majority.
 * 1) The majority.

Adjectives for Preponderance
undue; tremendous; noticeable; unquestioned.

Thesaurus
accomplishment, advantage, ascendance, ascendancy, ascendant, authority, balance of power, bulk, charisma, charm, clout, consequence, control, credit, deanship, dominance, dominancy, domination, dominion, effect, eminence, eminent domain, enchantment, esteem, excellence, favor, force, good feeling, greatness, hegemony, hold, importance, incidental power, incomparability, influence, influentiality, inimitability, insinuation, lead, leadership, leverage, magnetism, majority, mass, masterdom, mastery, moment, more than half, most, one-upmanship, overlordship, personality, persuasion, plurality, potency, power, precedence, predominance, predominancy, predomination, preeminence, preponderancy, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, pressure, prestige, primacy, principality, priority, privilege, purchase, reign, repute, right-of-way, rule, say, seniority, skill, sovereignty, strength, suasion, subtle influence, success, suggestion, superiority, supremacy, suzerainship, suzerainty, sway, the greatest number, transcendence, transcendency, upper hand, virtuosity, weight, weightiness, whip hand

Alternative forms

 * præponderance

Etymology
From praepondero:, from prae-: + pondero:

Translations

 * Czech: převaha, přesila


 * Russian: ,