Please tell me the difference between prominence and prevalence. For example, if I say that XXX reactor will gain prevalence/ prominence in the country in the next decade.
prevalence - become very widespread
prominence - become very important
Prominence has to do with importance. If a band becomes famous, they’ve come into prominence.
Prominence is a type of importance: if you put a statue in the middle of a room, you’re giving it a place of prominence. In movies, music, and sports, the most successful people have great prominence — they’re prominent or famous. Anything that juts out or sticks out has prominence. Whether prominence comes from being widely known or just being hard to miss, you can’t really ignore anything or anybody that has achieved prominence.
Prevalence means there is a lot of something. If you get a bad grade on a paper for having a prevalence of typos, you need to proofread your work more carefully.
The word prevalence comes from the Latin praevalere, meaning “condition of being widespread or general.” The word is often used to describe a phenomenon that is widespread in a community, like the prevalence of a disease across a country. Prevalence is another word for “commonness.” If there’s a prevalence of thefts in your neighborhood, that means the likelihood of your house getting robbed is pretty high.