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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Preponderance \Pre*pon"der*ance\, Preponderancy \Pre*pon"der*an*cy\, noun [Cf. F. pr['e]pond['e]rance.]
1. The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.
The mind should . . . reject or receive proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability. --Locke.
In a few weeks he had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed. --Macaulay.
2. (Gun.) The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
preponderance
noun
1: superiority in power or influence; "the preponderance of good over evil"; "the preponderance of wealth and power"
2: a superiority in numbers or amount; "there is a preponderance of Blacks in our prisons" [syn: {prevalence}]
3: exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight; "the least preponderance in either pan will unbalance the scale"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
98 Moby Thesaurus words for "preponderance": 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
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