Abundance

Quick meaning: Abundance is a noun meaning A large quantity; many.

Meaning

A large quantity; many.

More Meanings

1. An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness.
2. Wealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources.
3. Frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample.
4. (card games) A bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist.
5. (Scotland) enough, sufficiency.
6. (politics, uncountable, often capitalized) A political ideology that is progressive but prioritises economic growth and infrastructure construction.

Example Sentences

There is not a great abundance of time, so please don't dawdle.

Due to the abundance of art material, the class made a giant collage.

It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state.

In The Nation, Jeet Heer recently wrote that abundance “amounts to a new iteration of neoliberalism promoting deregulation and business-friendly policies.”

Word Forms

• abundances
• abundaunce

Synonyms for abundance

Depending on context, synonyms include abundation, heap, load, battalion, arseload, assload.

Antonyms for abundance

Common opposites include scarcity, scarceness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include copiousness, plenty, plentiful, profusion, plenitude, abundantly.

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