Abundance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: a=bun=dance

CIDE DICTIONARY

Abundance, 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.  [1913 Webster]
"It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Exuberance; plenteousness; plenty; copiousness; overflow; riches; affluence; wealth.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Abundance, n.
1 a very great quantity, usu. considered to be more than enough.
2 wealth, affluence.
3 wealth of emotion (abundance of heart).
4 a call in solo whist undertaking to make nine tricks.

Etymology

ME f. OF abundance f. L abundantia (as ABUNDANT)

THESAURUS

Abundance

accumulation, acres, adequacy, affluence, amassment, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, avalanche, backlog, bags, barrels, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, budget, bumper crop, bushel, cloud of words, collection, commissariat, commissary, competence, copiousness, cornucopia, countlessness, cumulation, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, dump, ease, easy street, effusion, effusiveness, enough, excess, extravagance, exuberance, fecundity, fertility, flood, flow, fluency, foison, formlessness, fructiferousness, fruitfulness, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness, glut, great abundance, great plenty, gush, gushing, heap, hoard, infinitude, innumerability, inventory, landslide, larder, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, load, logorrhea, lots, lushness, luxuriance, macrology, manyness, mass, material, materials, materiel, maximum, more than enough, mountain, much, multifariousness, multifoldness, multiplicity, multitude, multitudinousness, munitions, myriad, myriads, nimiety, numerousness, ocean, oceans, opulence, opulency, outpour, outpouring, overflow, oversupply, palilogy, peck, pile, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, pleonasm, pregnancy, prevalence, procreativeness, prodigality, productive capacity, productiveness, productivity, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificity, prosperousness, provisionment, provisions, quantities, quantity, rampancy, rankness, rations, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness, repertoire, repertory, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, rick, rifeness, riot, riotousness, satiety, scads, sea, shower, spate, stack, stock, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, stores, stream, substantiality, substantialness, sufficiency, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, supplies, supply on hand, surplus, swarmingness, talkativeness, tautology, teeming womb, teemingness, thriving, tirade, tons, treasure, treasury, volume, wealth, well-being, world, worlds

ROGET THESAURUS

Abundance

Sufficiency

N sufficiency, adequacy, enough, withal, satisfaction, competence, no less, quantum sufficit, Q, S, mediocrity, fill, fullness, plenitude, plenty, abundance, copiousness, amplitude, galore, lots, profusion, full measure, good measure pressed down and running, over, luxuriance, affluence, fat of the land, a land flowing with milk and honey, cornucopia, horn of plenty, horn of Amalthaea, mine, outpouring, flood, tide, repletion, satiety, sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible, measured, moderate, full, ample, plenty, plentiful, plenteous, plenty as blackberries, copious, abundant, abounding, replete, enough and to spare, flush, choke-full, chock-full, well-stocked, well- provided, liberal, unstinted, unstinting, stintless, without stint, unsparing, unmeasured, lavish, wholesale, rich, luxuriant, affluent, wantless, big with, unexhausted, unwasted, exhaustless, inexhaustible, sufficiently, amply Adj, full, in abundance, with no sparing hand, to one's heart's content, ad libitum, without stint, cut and come again, das Beste ist gut genug.

Greatness

N greatness, magnitude, size, multitude, immensity, enormity, infinity, might, strength, intensity, fullness, importance, great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world, mass, heap, stock, peck, bushel, load, cargo, cartload, wagonload, shipload, flood, spring tide, abundance, principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part, bulk, mass, great, greater, large, considerable, fair, above par, big, huge, Herculean, cyclopean, ample, abundant, full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high, signal, at its height, in the zenith, world-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive, wholesale, many, goodly, noble, precious, mighty, sad, grave, heavy, serious, far gone, arrant, downright, utter, uttermost, crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate, rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate, glaring, flagrant, stark staring, thorough-paced, thoroughgoing, roaring, thumping, extraordinary, important, unsurpassed, complete, august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic, vast, immense, enormous, extreme, inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown, towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, unlimited, unapproachable, unutterable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, inexpressible, beyond expression, fabulous, undiminished, unabated, unreduced, unrestricted, absolute, positive, stark, decided, unequivocal, essential, perfect, finished, remarkable, of mark, marked, pointed, veriest, noteworthy, renowned, truly, decidedly, unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally, radically, downright, in all conscience, for the most part, in the main, entirely, abundantly, widely, far and wide, greatly, much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little, pretty, pretty well, enough, in a great measure, richly, to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent, on a large scale, so, never so, ever so, ever so dole, scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much, by wholesale, mighty, powerfully, with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably, beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds, incalculably, infinitely, preeminently, superlatively, immoderately, monstrously, preposterously, inordinately, exorbitantly, excessively, enormously, out of all proportion, with a vengeance, particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously, uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly, pointedly, mainly, chiefly, famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly, emphatically, kat exochin, strangely, wonderfully, amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully, stupendously, peculiarly, furiously, severely, desperately, tremendously, extravagantly, confoundedly, deucedly, devilishly, with a vengeance, a outrance, a toute outrance, painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly, piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably, shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly, a maximis ad minima, greatness knows itself, mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed, minimum decet libere cui multum licet, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.