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PROFUSENESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does profuseness mean?

• PROFUSENESS (noun)
The noun PROFUSENESS has 1 sense:

1. the property of being extremely abundant

Familiarity information: PROFUSENESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PROFUSENESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The property of being extremely abundant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

profuseness; profusion; richness; cornucopia

Context examples:

the profusion of detail / the idiomatic richness of English

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)

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