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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Abundance \A*bun"dance\, n. [OE. (h)abundaunce, abundance, F. abondance, L. abundantia fr abundare See {Abound}.] An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. --Raleigh. Syn: Exuberance; plenteousness; plenty; copiousness; overflow; riches; affluence; wealth. Usage: {Abundance}, {Plenty}, {Exuberance}. These words rise upon each other in expressing the idea of fullness. Plenty denotes a sufficiency to supply every want as plenty of food, plenty of money, etc Abundance express more and gives the idea of superfluity or excess; as abundance of riches, an abundance of wit and humor; often however, it only denotes plenty in a high degree. Exuberance rises still higher, and implies a bursting forth on every side producing great superfluity or redundance; as an exuberance of mirth, an exuberance of animal spirits, etc From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: abundance n : the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply; "an age of abundance" [syn: {copiousness}] [ant: {scarcity}]
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