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PROFUSENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being extremely abundant
Example:
the idiomatic richness of English
Synonyms:
cornucopia; profuseness; profusion; richness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("profuseness" is a kind of...):
abundance; copiousness; teemingness (the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "profuseness"):
overgrowth (a profusion of growth on or over something else)
greenness; verdancy; verdure (the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation)
wilderness (a bewildering profusion)
Derivation:
profuse (produced or growing in extreme abundance)
