PROFUSENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)