abundance
Plural: abundances
Noun
- the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply
- "an age of abundance"
- (physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present
- (chemistry) the ratio of the total mass of an element in the earth's crust to the total mass of the earth's crust; expressed as a percentage or in parts per million
- A large quantity; many.
- An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness.
- Wealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources.
- Frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample.
- A bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist.
- enough, sufficiency.
Examples
- Due to the abundance of art material, the class made a giant collage.
- There is not a great abundance of time, so please don't dawdle.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English abundaunce, habaundance, from Old French habundance, abondance, from Latin abundantia (“fullness, plenty”), from abundō (“to overflow”). Equivalent to abound + -ance. Displaced Old English geniht (“abundance, plenty”).
Synonyms
copiousness, teemingness, Mammon, abundance, abundation, acrasia, acrasy, affluence, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful, bucketful, bucketload, bumload, busload, butt-ton, buttload, cartload, cheese, crapload, deal, ease, excess, excessiveness, exuberance, fecundity, fertileness, fertility, fortune, fruitfulness, fuckload, fuckton, fuckwad, fulth, glut, great deal, hantle, heap, hecatomb, helluvalot, horseload, immoderation, incontinence, intemperance, lashings, load, lot, mampus, many, mass, metric fuckton, metric shitload, mickle, mountain, muckle, multiplicity, multitude, nimiety, opulence, overabundance, overage, overflow, overplus, overquantity, oversum, pile, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plentitude, plenty, plethora, productiveness, profusion, ream, richdom, riches, shedload, shitful, shitload, shitton, slew, sum, superabundance, superaddition, superfluity, superfluousness, superflux, superplus, surfeit, surplus, surplusage, ton, trainload, truckload, tun, uberty, ug, vaultful, wagonload, wealth
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 14
abundance: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordabundance: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
abundance: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary